... of calculating technology until the 1st century. In the early 1600's, John Napier invented the Napier's bones which were multiplication tables inscribe on wood. He also invented logarithms. In 1621 William Oughtred used Napier's logarithms as the basis for his invention, the slide rule. In 1642, Blaise Pascal developed the "Pascaline." 1694 when Gottfried Leibnitz invented the "stepped reckoner." Theoretically this machine ... ...

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... the wealth of his nation. He was a leading figure in his society, and was well respected through out London. Babbage died in 1871. Among other works, he wrote Tables of Logarithms in 1827 and an autobiography in 1864. His work will be remembered, and probably used for years to come. ...

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ARE THEY TAKING OVER DO THEY EVER SMILE? OR, GET ANGRY "Expert systems, case-based reasoning, neural networks, and genetic logarithms represent an applied branch of the computer science field of artificial intelligence (AI)". According to Henry Lucas (2000 p. 595) As our world simultaneously shrinks and expands through the growing abilities ... ...

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