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Counting on your fingers

Question: Which was the earliest of these early calculators?

  • Gottfried Leibniz’s Leibniz Wheel
  • Blaise Pascal’s Pascaline calculator
  • Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine



Answer: Blaise Pascal’s Pascaline calculator

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