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10. Answer the questions on the text: 1.
What was the very first calculating device?
2.
What is abacus? When did people begin to use them?
3.
When did a lot of people try to find easy ways of calculating?
4.
Who used Napier’s ideas to produce logarithm?
5.
What was invented by Sir Isaac Newton and Leibnitz?
6.
What did Charles Babbage design?
7.
When was the first analog computer built? How did people use it?
8.
Who built the first digital computer?
9.
How did the first generation of computers work?
10.
What are the differences between the first and the second computer
generations?
11.
When did the third-generation computers appear?