Babbage
Got bored, so I played around with the book cover template in InDesign. What if Charles Babbage and George Boole had brainstormed together? And what if Babbage ditched decimal representation in favor of binary? And then went on to build the much simpler and cheaper Logical Engine? I think this would make a fun alternate [...]
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”The possibility of constructing a piece of mechanism capable of performing certain operations on numbers is by no means new ; it was thought of by Pascal and geometers, and more recently it has been reduced to practice by M. Thomas, of Colmar, in France, and by the Messrs. Schülz, of Sweden; but never before or [...]
A laudable goal. John Graham-Cumming exhorts the building of an Analytical Engine, just as Difference Engine No. 2 was built in the 1980s.
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In which it is speculated whether Babbage could have thought of a binary Engine.
Wherein Babbage is gently poked at.
Wherein the Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill is designed.
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“…Mr. Babbage believes he can, by his engine, form the product of two numbers, each containing twenty figures, in three minutes.” —L. F. Menabrea, Sketch of the Analytical Engine, as translated by Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace. Charles Babbage (1791-1871) never completed his half-baked project, the Analytical Engine. Had it been built, Babbage’s Engine would have [...]
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