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Difference Engine

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The difference engine is a historical mechanical special-purpose calculator designed to produce numerical tables of polynomials. Since logarithms and trigonometric functions can be approximated by polynomials, such machines had considerable versatility. https://scrapbox.io/files/6631d4312657a90023eb0b95.png #media

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