Which war was Atanasoff's invention used in?
World War I
The Korean War
Vietnam War
It wasn't used in a war
Answer
Atanasoff's invention, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC), was not used in any war. Its development began in 1937 but was not completed until 1942, by which time the major hostilities of World War II were already underway. It was never intended for military purposes, and its primary use was for solving complex mathematical equations, specifically systems of linear equations.
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