Yesterday’s News Today
On this
day in 1822 Charles Babbage proposed his difference engine to the Royal
Astronomical Society. The difference engine would have, had it been built from
Babbage's plans, been the first working automatic calculator in the world (with
the possible exception of the Antikythera mechanism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
)
And now
the news:
Come
on, admit it, at school you used your calculator more for this sort of
shenanigan than actual maths:
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