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    didn’t exist? Many people use computers these days. Here’s some biography of the inventor, stuff about his inventions, and how he impacted people. Babbage lived a very well life with many opportunities. According to Biography.com Editors, “Babbage was born on December 26, 1791, in London, England.” He came from a family of wealth and leisure. Babbage went to a great school and had great determination towards math, his mathematics professors actually knew less than he did. In 1810, he was accepted

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    time. Babbage then joined 30-student Holmwood academy. This were he found his love to mathematics. He moved to Cambridge College to develop his mathematical skills. Disappointed in the mathematical introduction in the college formed with two other colleagues an Analytical Society. In 1812 he was transferred to Peterhouse in Cambridge where he was top mathematician there but surprisingly did not graduate with honours. Instead received degree without examination. Later life After school Babbage worked

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    self-control, her mother made her lie still for a long time. Ada received many letters from other scientists as well. Including William Frend, William King, and Mary Somerville. At 17 she made a friend and together they helped each other. His name was Charles Babbage, another mathematician. She was fascinated with his work. Then someone asked her to translate an article from Babbage’s analytical engine, but she didn’t just translare it, she added a few thoughts to it too. She wrote how the codes could be created

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    sponsored by the British government, however, Babbage abandoned it to start on a more complex project - the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine was a general purpose computing machine and had all the elements of a modern computer. While it was a major leap forward, the Analytical Engine was never built. Ada played a big part in this project. She had such a deep understanding of the Engine, she possibly knew more than Babbage. While Charles Babbage had a more mathematical mindset, Ada thought

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    Engine by an Luigi Menabrea, Italian engineer, to which Ada added extensive notes of her own. The Notes included the first published description of a stepwise sequence of operations for solving certain mathematical problems. The collaboration with Babbage was close and biographers debated the extent and originality of Ada's contribution. She impacted the science world by being the first computer programming, and was considered to have wrote the first instructions in the 1800s. Her contributions though

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    the first known attempts of making paper roughly 2,000 years ago, computer like technology began in a more complex fashion. With previous attempts and ideas, in 1822, computer pioneer, Charles Babbage was able to design the first automatic computing engine; however, Babbage was unable to build it himself (The Babbage Engine”). His machine was composed of “a model of his early difference engine - a brass calculating machine capable of tabulating higher-order polynomial functions - alongside a silver

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    mathematician. Ada Lovelace was encouraged to be a mathematician from her mother who studied math and was firm that Ada should not become a poet like her father. She bonded with Charles Babbage, inventor of the calculator, by working with him. Very shortly after Ada was born her, mother divorced

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    full Ada King, countess of Lovelace, original name Augusta Ada Byron, Lady Byron (born December 10, 1815, Piccadilly Terrace, Middlesex [now in London], England—died November 27, 1852, Marylebone, London), English mathematician, an associate of Charles Babbage, for whose prototype of a digital computer she created a program. She has been called the first computer programmer. Lovelace was the daughter of famed poet Lord Byron and Annabella Milbanke Byron, who legally separated two months after her birth

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    tenía la capacidad de realizar multiplicaciones, divisiones y raíz cuadradas a este mecanismo se lo bautizo con el nombre de rueda escalada de Leibniz dando así por terminada en 1694 tras haber obtenido modelos de Pascal y Samuel Morland. 1821: Charles Babbage diseña una máquina para diferenciar la cual podía realizar el cálculo de polinomios de sexto grado y tabular veinte cifras y ocho decimales. 1833: en este

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    Business existed in the world since human beings were born. Back to Paleolithic Age, our ancestors were doing business by trading goods with each other and we call this “Barter”. They traded goods whatever they needed. They could use food trade with furniture or they could use tools trade with clothes. But then the problems were coming, sometimes, our ancestors found that the prices of goods were not always consistent, and it was very inconvenient to carry heavy goods around. Therefore, people decided

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