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Why are computers called computers?

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Anonymous

∙ 10y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Because the original computers were designed to compute formulas, such as missile trajectories for the U.S. military.

Of course, sixty years later the personal computer can do so much more than that. But by now, the original name has become ingrained in the public consciousness.
Computer is an extension of the word Compute, which is something determined by calculation. It derivies from the Latin word Computare meaning 'to think'

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