"The Pascaline was developed by Pascal at the age of 19 to assist his father, Etienne, who was then president of the Cour des Aides de Normandie (Board of Excise)…Blaise Pascal designed three types of calculating machines to simplify this process for his father: one for decimal calculations (additions, subtractions, multiplications and divisions), one for accounting (monetary calculations), and one for the purpose of surveying (calculating distances)."