the difference engine

常见例句

The Difference Engine: Houston, we have a problem...
差分机：休斯顿，我们有一个问题...
But the Difference Engine could only do rote calculations and was incapable of checking its results to alter course.
但是这种差分机只能做机械运算，而且不能检查结果以修改过程。
Babbage intended to use the Difference Engine to compute trigonometric tables, which sailors (among others) used to compute the results of trig functions.
巴贝奇打算使用差分机计算三角函数表，海员（还有其他人）用这个表来解三角函数方程。

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