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Because it made advanced math computations much easier. Even today, we use scientific calculators (or charts if we don't have one available) rather than make certain types of calculations each time. So someone had to come up with the values used in the charts.
William Oughtred (1574 - 1660) was an English mathematician and scholar. He used previous work by Napier, Gunter, and Delamain design a circular slide rule. This made approximate calculations much easier and faster than other methods of the time. The slide rule was reinvented in a sliding bar format in the 1650s. In addition to making calculations easier, the slide rule made teaching of logarithms more understandable.
He did not INVENT it, he DISCOVEREDit.
He didn't invent mathematics.
Descartes did not invent polynomials.
In 1614, John Napier published his invention of logarithms.
Logarithms were invented by John Napier who was a mathematician. He invented other things too, so there was no reason why he couldn't invent the logarithms. Logarithms were invented so people could take short cuts to multiplications! :)
William Oughtred did not invent the computer. He was a mathematician and inventor who is credited with the invention of the slide rule, a calculating device used for performing mathematical calculations. Oughtred's invention of the slide rule in the early 17th century significantly improved the accuracy and efficiency of mathematical calculations.
Because it made advanced math computations much easier. Even today, we use scientific calculators (or charts if we don't have one available) rather than make certain types of calculations each time. So someone had to come up with the values used in the charts.
William Oughtred (1574 - 1660) was an English mathematician and scholar. He used previous work by Napier, Gunter, and Delamain design a circular slide rule. This made approximate calculations much easier and faster than other methods of the time. The slide rule was reinvented in a sliding bar format in the 1650s. In addition to making calculations easier, the slide rule made teaching of logarithms more understandable.
As with all of the other early computer inventors Zuse was dissatisfied with available means of computation and had large problems to solve for which they proved inadequate. He/they invented computers to help solve those large problems.
There was a demand for a huge number of manual calculations to create tables - many of them for navigational purposes - where similar calculations needed to be repeated many times.
The computer was invented for storing data, making fast calculations and easy communication.
John Napier was born, lived, and died in Edinburgh, Scotland. Napier is most famous for being the one to invent logarithms. He attended school at the University of St. Andrews.
George Stibitz is renowned for inventing the Complex Number Calculator in 1939, which was a pioneering electromechanical device capable of performing complex number calculations. This invention laid the foundation for modern digital computers and was a significant advancement in the field of computing technology.
He got very frustrated one day while being a human computer and said "There should be a way to do these calculations by steam!"
The current machines are in the billions. They have come out with RISC chips that only do thousands per second.