COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Developed by Charles Babbage from 1822 to 1834, an automatic and mechanical calculator that tabulates polynomial functions that was named after the mathematical principle-the method of finite differences. What do we call this engine?
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Differential Engine
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Difference Engine
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Analyzation Engine
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Analytic Engine
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created by Charles Babbage.
Detailed explanation-2: -Difference Engine, an early calculating machine, verging on being the first computer, designed and partially built during the 1820s and ‘30s by Charles Babbage.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage’s difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.
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