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The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.

Howard Aiken
Errors, Effort, Desire
"Proposed Automatic Calculating Machine". Paper by Howard H. Aiken, dl.acm.org. 1937.
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.