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Meaning of pascalina



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Danilo Enrique Noreña Benítez

pascalina
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Concerning Pascal . Relative to Blaise Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher. Name of the first calculating machine invented by Blaise Pascal. It worked on sprockets and gears. It was also initially called an arithmetic machine and pascaline wheel.

  



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John Rene Plaut

PASCALINA machine based on gears that allowed to add mechanically, invented by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal in 1642. First he called it an arithmetic machine, then a pascaline machine and finally a pascaline machine.

  










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