The Difference Engine
Calculators
Mathematicians, biography
Penance
Confession
Science, history
Computers
Geschichte
Catholic Church
History
"In 1821 an inventor and mathematician, Charles Babbage, was poring over a set of mathematical tables. Finding error after error Babbage exclaimed, "I wish to God these calculations had been executed by steam." His frustration was not simply at the grindingly tedious labor of checking manually evalu…
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