The invention, however, was not without its glitches: There was a discrepancy between the calculator's design and the structure of French currency at the time. Pascal continued to work on improving the device, with 50 prototypes produced by 1652, but the Pascaline was never a big seller. In...
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In 1641, at the age of 18, Pascal built his first arithmetical machine, an instrument which, eight years later, he further improved and called the Pascaline. His correspondence with Fermat about this time shows that he was then turning his attention to analytical geometry and physics. He repea...
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, religious philosopher, and author who wrote Pensees (‘Thoughts’) and Les Provinciales (‘The Provincial Letters’).
Blaise Pascal is best known for his profound contributions to mathematics and physics, as well as for his religious writings. His invention of the Pascaline and his development of Pascal's Triangle are particularly notable. Furthermore, his experiments on atmospheric pressure established foundational pr...
Pascal was also and inventor. He is credited with the design and development of one of the world's first calculating machines. The Pascaline could perform four arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. With this app students learn about the significant contributions tha...
An improvement on an earlier design, the Pascaline did not sell particularly well, and production of it was discontinued a decade later. He then began working on a perpetual motion machine; while it never was produced, his work on it led to the invention of the roulette wheel. Among Pascal...