difference engine

基本解釋

The Difference Engine: Houston, we have a problem...
差分機(jī)：休斯頓，我們有一個(gè)問題...
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)衹能做機(jī)械運(yùn)算，而且不能檢查結(jié)果以脩改過程。
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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