1. Difference engineThe Engine is not a replica (one was never built during Babbage's lifetime); therefore this is the first one - the original. ]] A difference engine is an automatic, mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. The name derives from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial coefficients.
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