Reckoner
11reckoner — reck·on·er || reknÉ™(r) n. one who makes computations, one who calculates; estimator, one who guesses, one who supposes …
12reckoner — n. Counter, calculator, computer …
13reckoner — reck·on·er …
14ready reckoner — reckoner (def. 2). [1750 60] * * * …
15Stepped Reckoner — La Stepped Reckoner. En los años 1670, el barón alemán Gottfried Leibniz llevó el cálculo mecánico un paso más adelante de sus predecesores. Leibniz, quien entró en la universidad a los quince años de edad y recibió su licenciatura a los… …
16The Sand Reckoner — (Greek: Ψαμμίτης, Psammites ) is a work by Archimedes in which he set out to determine an upper bound for the number of grains of sand that fit into the universe. In order to do this, he had to estimate the size of the universe according to the… …
17Stepped Reckoner — The Liebniz Stepped Drum (or Step(ped) Reckoner, a translation of its German name Staffelwalze,) was a digital mechanical calculator invented by German mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1672 and completed 1694.cite… …
18Step Reckoner — ▪ calculating machine a calculating machine designed (1671) and built (1673) by the German mathematician philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm). The Step Reckoner expanded on the French mathematician philosopher… …
19dead reckoner — dead reckoner, an instrument for dead reckoning: »an automatic dead reckoner that continuously plots a ship s position …
20Ready reckoner — Ready Read y (r[e^]d [y^]), a. [Compar. {Readier} (r[e^]d [i^]*[ e]r); superl. {Readiest}.] [AS. r[=ae]de; akin to D. gereed, bereid, G. bereit, Goth. gar[ a]ids fixed, arranged, and possibly to E. ride, as meaning originally, prepared for riding …
