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What is the very first type of calculations we have ever used in history?
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It was our very own fingers and many examples include the chinese finger technique.
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Who made the tooth rotating wheel calculator, which was meant to add and subtract (did not sell very well)?
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Schickard was the inventor of the tooth rotating wheel calculator.
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Which calculation device was used to calculate the date and the time back then about 2000 years ago?
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The Antikythera Mechanism was the famous device that was used for that.
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What are some methods that were used to solve basic problems back then?
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Some include the Slide Rule, Pascaline's Calculator, the Abacus, and the Olvetti Programma 101.
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When was the first handheld calculator invented around what time?
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It was first made around the 1960's.
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What types of equations can the Napier's Bones calculator do?
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This type of calculator could multiply, add, divide, and subtract which was impressive at the time.
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What are some of the modern calculators that you use today in this world?
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Cell phones, laptops, computers, texas instrument, casio, and sharp as well.
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What was Leonardo da Vinci's design primarily based off of?
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It is supposed to be based off of living organism that he was studying at the time.
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What is the name of one of the oldest calculators ever in this world (was made in Asia Minor at the time)?
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This incredible instrument was known as the abacus.
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List some examples of how calculators have become involved in our computer now and back then.
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They were used in the, arguably, first computer made by the British. This was the Analytic Engine and calculators have also been in our laptops and computers as well.
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