Difference Engine A numerical table is a tool designed to save the time and labor of those engaged in computing work. The oldest tables which are preserved, were compiled in Babylon in the period ...

Grant’s difference engine was invented in 1876 by George Grant. It was a calculating machine and was invented as a way to advance the current calculating machine technology. It used the latest ...

A small number of digital computing machines computed and printed mathematical tables by finding successive values of a function using a mathematical technique known as the method of finite ...