Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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The first to describe a pinwheel calculator in 1685 he invented the Leibniz wheel, used in the arithmometer, the first mass-produced mechanical calculator.
His other notable achievement was to refine the binary number system, which is the foundation of all digital computers.