Part one of term paper
For better or worse, computers have filtered every aspect of our society. Today computers do much more than simply compute. has come a long way. To fully understand and appreciate the impact computers have on our lives and promises they hold for the future, it is important to understand their evolution. The abacus, which emerged about 5,00 ...

Part two of term paper
... emerge. In 1642, an 18 year old named Blaise Pascal, invented a numerical wheel calculator. This rectangular box was called a Pascaline. It used eight movable dials to add sums up to eight figures long. Pascal's device used a base of ten to accomplish this. When the ten's dial moved one revolution, the dial representing the hundred's place moved one notch and so on. The drawback to the Pascaline, of course, was its limitation to addition. In 1694, a German mathematician named Gottfried Wilhem v ...