The invention of the slide rule is attributed to
A. Babbage
B. Oughtred
C. Pascal
D. Napier
E. None of the above
Answer: Option B
Solution(By Examveda Team)
The Reverend William Oughtred and others developed the slide rule in the 17th century based on the emerging work on logarithms by John Napier. Before the advent of the electronic calculator, it was the most commonly used calculation tool in science and engineering.This Question Belongs to Computer Fundamentals >> Computer Fundamental Miscellaneous
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