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The difference engine : Charles Babbage and the quest to build the first computer / Doron Swade

This history examines the 19th-century quest to develop mechanical calculating engines and the modern project to build a functional model. It details the origins of computing and the effort to eliminate errors in mathematical tables through mechanised arithmetic.

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