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History of Computing

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Whether you're interested in the principle of history or you had a sudden will to read this post, WELCOME! In the near future, I'll have an exam about the history of computing. Therefore, I thought of putting what I studied on paper will make it easy to remember afterwards. So, here we are. I'll convey the matter into three parts. 1-The Early Period: Up to 1940 As you know ordinary invention stories from the light bulb, the telephone or the first heavier-than-air flight, may expect computer to be invented in the past within a huge individual effort of a genius or general scientific steps. However, computers don't have exact time of invention and they did not appear in a specific room. Let's begin with the subdisciplines that played role in the process of invention of computers. Progress started within some discussions of mathematics abd arithmetic. The contributions of Greeks : development of geometry and logic Babylonians & Egyptians: numerical met...