Who invented the first calculator ?

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A Charles Babbage
B Blaise Pascal
C Albert Einstein
D Thomas Edison

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Answer: B. Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician and philosopher, is widely credited with inventing the first mechanical calculator, known as the Pascaline, in 1642. Designed to aid his father's tax calculations, the device could add and subtract two numbers directly and perform multiplication and division through repeated addition or subtraction

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