BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Yes, it was fully built and worked!
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No, it was only partially built due to lack of money.
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Not fully built. Only part of the machine was made.
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It was just a design, never actually built.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Never actually completed or used, the Difference Engine’s main contribution to the world ended up being the ideas it inspired in Babbage’s mind, leading to his next engine, and ultimately to modern computer programming.
Detailed explanation-2: -Babbage conceived the engine to calculate a series of numerical values and automatically print the results. Difference Engine No 2 was never constructed in his lifetime.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1821 Babbage invented the Difference Engine to compile mathematical tables. On completing it in 1832, he conceived the idea of a better machine that could perform not just one mathematical task but any kind of calculation.
Detailed explanation-4: -Difference Engine, an early calculating machine, verging on being the first computer, designed and partially built during the 1820s and ‘30s by Charles Babbage.