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  1. A mechanical calculating machine designed,
  2. but never built, by the British mathematician
  3. Charles Babbage about 1830. It was to
  4. calculate mathematical functions by solving
  5. the differences between values given to
  6. variables within equations. Babbage designed
  7. the calculator so that once the initial
  8. values for the variables were set it would
  9. produce the next few thousand values without
  10. error.
  11.