| Calculators are machines Message #4 Posted by Randy Sloyer on 16 Mar 2004, 11:53 p.m., in response to message #3 by Jim Anchower
According to Webster's:
- Etymology: Middle French, from Latin machina, from Greek mEchanE (Doric dialect machana), from mEchos means, expedient
- an assemblage of parts that transmit forces, motion, and energy one to another in a predetermined manner
- a mechanically, electrically, or electronically operated device for performing a task <a calculating machine> <a card-sorting machine>
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