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  • The Babbage Difference Engine
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    The Babbage Difference Engine
    Nic Fillingham May 23, 2008 at 10:05 AM Comments 0

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    Back in the early 1800’s an English chap by the name of Charles Babbage started toying with the idea of machines that could calculate complex mathematical tables to eliminate the possibility of human error when performing these calculations by hand.Babbage drew up plans for such a device –…
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