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Charles Babbage
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may have spent his life in vain, trying to make a machine
considered by most of his friends to be ridiculous. 150 years ago, Babbage drew
hundreds of drawings projecting the fundamentals on which today's computers are
founded. But the techno .... Middle of Term Paper
... he was on his way to understanding the advanced theories
of mathematics and even formed an Analytical Society to present and discuss
original papers on mathematics and to interest people in translating the works
of several foreign mathematicians into English. His studies also led him to a
critical study of logarithmic tables and was constantly reporting errors in them.
During this analysis, it occurred to him that all these tables could be
calculated by machinery. He was convinced that it was possible to construct a
machine that would be able to compute by successive differences and to even
print out the results. (He conceived of this ... |
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