IT lexicon Hardware Stepped reckoner

Stepped reckoner

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Creator
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Released
1673
Type
Mechanical calculator
Predecessor
Pascaline

Leibniz's machine was the first to handle all four arithmetic operations, and the stepped gear inside it stayed in calculators for three hundred years.

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