difference engine

常見(jiàn)例句

The Difference Engine: Houston, we have a problem...
差分機(jī)：休斯頓，我們有一個(gè)問(wèn)題...
But the Difference Engine could only do rote calculations and was incapable of checking its results to alter course.
但是這種差分機(jī)只能做機(jī)械運(yùn)算，而且不能檢查結(jié)果以修改過(guò)程。
Babbage intended to use the Difference Engine to compute trigonometric tables, which sailors (among others) used to compute the results of trig functions.
巴貝奇打算使用差分機(jī)計(jì)算三角函數(shù)表，海員（還有其他人）用這個(gè)表來(lái)解三角函數(shù)方程。

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