Fun Facts About Computers
- The first electronic computer ENIAC (‘Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer’) was built in 1943 in America. It weighed more than 27 tons and was the size of a large room.
- ENIAC took 70 hours to work out pi (π) to 2000 decimal places. A modern computer can work out a million decimal places of pi in about ten seconds.
- TYPEWRITER is the longest word that you can write using the letters on the top row of the keyboard of your computer.
- An average person normally blinks 20 times a minute, but when using a computer they blink only 7 times a minute.
- Google, Apple, Disney and Kip McGrath have one very interesting thing in common – they were all started in a garage.
