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What is Computer ?

The Word "Computer" is comes from the Latin word "compute" Which means to calculate or compute. So Computer means Calculating Machine device.

Computer is an electronic device which is used to store the data, as per given instructions it gives results quickly and accurately.

Write down the uses of computer in medical sector?

a. Education: Getting the right kind of information is a major challenge as is getting imformation to make sense. College students spend an average of 5-6 hours a week on th internat.

b.Health and Medicine: Computer technology is radically changing the tools of medicine. All medical information can now be digitized. Software is now able to computer the risk of a disease.

C.Science : Scientists have logn been users of it. A new adventure among scientists is the idea of a "Collaborator" an internet based collaborative laboratory.

d. Business : Business clearly see the interest as a way to enhance Productivity  and Competitiveness. Some areas of business that are undergoing rapid changes are sales and marketing, retailing, banking, stock trading etc.

e. Governemt : Various departments of the Government use computer for their planning, control and law enforcement activities.

H.Sports: In today's technologically growing society, computers are being used in nearly every actiity.

I. Recording Information: Official statistics keepers and some scouts use computers to record statistice, take notes and chat online while attending and working at a sports event.

J. Writers: Many sportswriters attend several sporting events a week and they take their computers with them to write during the game of shortly after while their thoughts are fresh in their mind.

K.Safely: Computers have aided in the design of safety of safely equipment in sports such as football helmets to shoes to mouth guards.

Briefly Explain the Characteristics of Digital Computer?

Increasing Popularity of computers has proved that it is a very powerful and useful tool.

1.Automatic:

An automatic machine works by itself without human intervention

However computers being machines cannot start themselves and cannot go out and find their own problems and solutions.

2.Speed:

A computer is a very fast device.

It can perform in a few seconds, the amount of work that a human being can do in an entire year- it he/she worked day and night and did nothing else.

3.Accuracy:

The errors in computer are due to human and inaccurate data.

4. Diligence:

It is free from monotony, tiredness and lack of concentration.

5. Versatility:

It can perform a wide variety of tasks.

6.Power of Remembering:

Computer has the power of storing any amount of information or data

No IQ:

Computer is a dumb machine and it cannot do anywork without instruction frm the user

No Feeling:

It does not have feelings or emotion, taste, knowledge and experience.

Storage:

The Computer has an in-bullt memory where it can store a large amount of data.

Write down the difference between analog and digital computer.

Difference between Analog and Digital Computer