1822 CE
Babbage Proposes The Difference Engine
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A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was created by Charles Babbage. The name difference engine is derived from the method of finite differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients.
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- Charles V · 1500 CE – 1558 CE