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b. Write a short note on Napier's bones.c. Name the machines designed by Charles Babbage. |
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Answer» Using the multiplication tables embedded in the rods, multiplication can be reduced to addition operations and division to subtractions. More advanced use of the rods can even extract square roots.NotethatNapier's bonesare not the same as logarithms, with whichNapier'sname is also associated. The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage |
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