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It was a huge relief to hear when he got praise for his calculations from Professor Sissay, it made Cole relax just a little and his pulse slowed down too. If they had to do some more calculations later though he just knew that he'd start sweating again and get anxious. Leaning back in his chair next to Carsyn as the lesson moved onward to mechanical calculators that he wrote down on his parchment in neat letters as he listened to Professor Sissay’s lecture.
Raking his brain he tried to remember something useful to answer that nobody else had already mentioned and Cole eventually said tentatively with a look over at Professor Sissay for confirmation. "Weren't the first mechanical calculator created many decades ago because people couldn't count super large numbers in their heads without the high risk of getting it incorrect so it'd be more accurate? Also I've heard of something called a Thomas arithmometer, that was the first calculator reliable enough to be used daily in offices? I remember this because my late great grandpa on my daddy's side of the family was called Thomas." |