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Babbage Drawing II

Courtesy: IBM Corporation

Unfortunately for Babbage, his vision was too grand. No mere desk calculator, his engine would compute lengthy math tables by obtaining successive orders of difference through subtraction, and set them up directly in type so the tables could be printed without error.

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