computer


Computers are tools used to process the data according to the procedures that have been formulated. Computer word originally used to describe the work people do arithmetic calculations, with or without tools, but the meaning of this word and then transferred to the machine itself. Their origins, processing information almost exclusively related to arithmetical problems, but modern computers are used for many tasks unrelated to mathematics.

In such a definition is a tool like a slide rule, mechanical calculator types ranging from abacus, and so on, until all contemporary electronic computers. Better terms suitable for a broad sense such as "computer" is "that process information" or "information-processing system."

Nevertheless, the above definition includes many special tools that can only take one or several functions. When considering modern computers, the nature of their most important tool to distinguish them from the earlier count is that, with the right programming, any computer can emulate any nature (although perhaps limited by storage capacity and different speeds), and, indeed believed that the machine can now mimic computing tools that we will create in the future (though undoubtedly more slowly). In a sense, these limits are a useful test because the computer recognized the "general purpose" of the special purpose equipment early. The definition of "public purpose" can be formulated into a condition that a machine should be able to emulate a universal Turing machine. Machines that have this definition is known as a Turing-complete, and that they first appeared in 1940 in the middle of development throughout the world. See the article on the history of computing for more details of this period.

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