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THE DIFFERENCE ENGINE—FACT AND FICTION

CHARLES BABBAGE was a nineteenth century mathematician who recognized the computational drudgery of assembling tables of logarithms, trigonometric and other mathematical functions. This was the Industrial Age, after all. Why … Continue reading

September 30, 2012 · Leave a comment