the difference engine

常见例句

The Difference Engine: Houston, we have a problem...
差分機：休斯頓，我們有一個問題...
But the Difference Engine could only do rote calculations and was incapable of checking its results to alter course.
但是這種差分機衹能做機械運算，而且不能檢查結果以脩改過程。
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計算三角函數表，海員（還有其他人）用這個表來解三角函數方程。

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