NOWADAYS COMPUTERS ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR LIVES .

THEY ARE USED FOR THE

RESERVATION OF TICKETS FOR AIRPLANES AND RAILWAYS,PAYMENT OF TELEPHONE AND
ELECTRICITY BILLS,DEPOSIT AND WITHDRAWAL OF MONEY FROM BANKS
PROCESSING OF BUSINESS DATA,SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION ON THE INTERNET,ETC.COMPUTERS
ARE ALSO USED EXTENSIVELY IN SCHOOLS,UNIVERSITIES,ORGANIZATIONS,MUSIC
INDUSTRY,MOVIE INDUSTRY,SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH,LAW FIRMS,FASHION
INDUSTRY,ETC.A COMPUTER IS A GENRAL PURPOSE DEVICE THAT CAN BE PROGRAMMED TO CARRY
OUT A FINITE SET OF Arithmetic or logical operations.the first electronic digital
computers were developed between 1940 and 1945 in
the united kingdom and united staTES.
DEFINITION
COMPUTER IS AN ADVANCED ELECTRONIC DEVICE ESPECIALLY A PROGRAMMABLE ELECTRONIC
MACHINE THAT TAKES RAW DATA AS INPUT FROM THE USER AND PROCESSES THESE DATA UNDER
THE
CONTROL OF SET OF INSTRUCTIONS AND GIVES THE RESULT AND SAVES OUTPUT FOR THE FUTURE
USE.T CAN PROCESS BOTH NUMERICAL AND NON-NUMERICAI [ARITHMETIC AE TERM'COMPUTER'ISD
ERIVED FROM THE GREEK WORD'COMPUTER'.THE WORD COMMMPUTE MEANS TO CALCULATE.COMPUTER
PERFORMS BOTH SIMPLE AND COMPLEX OPERATIONS; WITH SPEED AND ACCURACY. IT DIFFERS
FROM A CALCULATOR IN DEING BEING ABLE TO STORE A PROGRAM AND TO STORE AND RETRIEVE
INFORMATION IN ITS MEMORY WITHOUT HUMAN HELP. PLURAL FORM OF'DATU BOTH SINGULAR AND