The Mechanical Adding Machines of Pascal and Leibniz Were Not

question 22

Multiple Choice

The mechanical adding machines of Pascal and Leibniz were not widely adopted because

• A) they were too expensive.
• B) there were unreliable.
• C) they were too difficult to program.
• D) they could not handle fractions.
• E) bookkeepers successfully lobbied the King, and he made the machines illegal.

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