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difference engines


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  • difference engine
  • engines, difference

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Calculating machines, now historic, that were able to produce tables of values for arithmetic functions. The machine was designed by English inventor and engineer Charles Babbage in 1822, and a working model was built in 1853 by George and Edward Scheutz.

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