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More about Charles Babbage’s Difference Engine \(N^ \circ 0\). (English) Zbl 0817.01009

The author reviews some of the difference methods underlying the first “computer” which Charles Babbage designed and built between 1820 and 1822. He also describes some of the Babbagiana to be found in Australasia; the machine is not among them!

MSC:

01A55 History of mathematics in the 19th century

Biographic References:

Babbage, Ch.
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