Quote: Babbage's analytical engine may be fast enough to not need precomputed tables

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It will be an interesting question ... to know whether such tables of cards will ever be required for the Engine. ... the computations to be made by the Engine are so rapid that it seems most probable that it will make shorter work by computing directly from proper formulae than by having recourse even to its own Tables.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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