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Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1673.
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Today it means: A cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators. Full definition →
Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1673.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.