As the possibility of performing arithmetical calculations by machinery may appear to non-mathematical readers to be rather too large a postulate, and as it is connected with the subject of the division of labour, I shall here endeavour, in a few lines,... On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures - Page 156by Charles Babbage - 1832 - 320 pagesFull view - About this book
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...livision of labour, I shall here endeavour, in a few mes, to give some slight perception of the manner n which this can be done ; and thus to remove a small...portion of the veil which covers that apparent mystery. That nearly all tables of numbers which 2 к— L 2 ARITHMETIC— AUK. follow any law, however complicated,... | |
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...work, and the just performance of the machines, must be still superintended by the second class. (247.) As the possibility of performing arithmetical calculations...portion of the veil which covers that apparent mystery. (248.) That nearly all tables of numbers which follow any law, however complicated, may be formed,... | |
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...their work, and the just performance of the machines, must be still superintended by the second class. As the possibility of performing arithmetical calculations...it is connected with the subject of the division of labor, I shall here endeavour, in a few lines, to give some slight perception of the manner in which... | |
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