Difference engine
:For the novel by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, see The Difference Engine
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A difference engine is a historical, mechanical special-purpose computer designed to tabulate polynomial functions. Since logarithmic and trigonometric functions can be approximated by polynomials, such a machine is more general than it appears at first.
Related Topics:
Computer - Polynomial functions - Logarithmic - Trigonometric function
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| ► | Introduction |
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| ► | Method of differences |
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