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designed a gear-based device called the Pascaline that could add and subtract. Then, in 1676, the stepped reckoner was invented by Gottfried Leibniz, which could also divide and multiply. Due to the limitations of contemporary fabrication and design flaws, Leibniz' reckoner was not very functional, but similar devices (Leibniz wheel) remained in use into the 1970s. In the 19th century,

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