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Why was the first computer invented for?

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Depends in part on what you consider a computer to be - while electronic computers only began being developed in the mid 1900s, mechanical computing devices existed well before that...one could consider the abacus to be a computer and they've been around for centuries.

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The Antikythera mechanism is an analog computer found in a shipwreck near Greece which is dated to aroud the second century BCE. Its apparent use was to predict astronomical positions and eclipses. It may also have been used to time the dates for the Olympic Games. It is suspected that the mahine is a mass produced item, making it the first commercial computer.

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