The game was inspired by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling's novel, " The Difference Engine ", and its basic plot and stylistics are both based on the novel.
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It follows the history of " information machines " from Charles Babbage's difference engine through Herman Hollerith's tabulating machines to the invention of the modern electronic digital computer.
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They opened up the fields of functional equations ( including the difference equations fundamental to the difference engine ) and operator ( D-module ) methods for differential equations.
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Babbage's difference engine No . 2, finally built in 1991, could hold 8 numbers of 31 decimal digits each and could thus tabulate 7th degree polynomials to that precision.
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Rapperschwyll found him there one day and, with his skill in medicine and watchmaking, made a clockwork brain for Savitch which is explicitly superior to Charles Babbage's difference engine.
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Nothing quite like the scene painted in " The Difference Engine " of the crisis of the summer of 1855 to underscore the joys of a peaceful Labor Day.
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Her networked robotic art installation ( The Difference Engine # 3, 1995-1998 ) is an example of her tendency to expand her artwork beyond the traditional realms of art.
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He later ( 1847 1849 ) produced detailed drawings for an improved version, " Difference Engine No . 2 ", but did not receive funding from the British government.
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Mechanical special-purpose computers known as difference engines were proposed in the 19th century to tabulate polynomial approximations of logarithmic functions & ndash; i . e . to compute large logarithmic tables.
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By improving the concept as an analytical engine, Babbage had made the difference engine concept obsolete, and the project to implement it an utter failure in the view of the government.
