200th anniversary: In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician...
History · Anniversaries · Tue, June 14, 2022
1822: In a paper presented to the Royal Astronomical Society, English mathematician Charles Babbage proposed a difference engine (pictured), an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions.
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