The Analytical Engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage`s Difference engine, a design for a mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine incorporated an arithmetic logic unit, control flow in the form of conditional branchi....
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(from the article `digital computer`) ...the 17th century. The English inventor Charles Babbage, however, is generally credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. ... While working on the Difference Engine, Babbage began to imagine ways to improve it. Chiefly he thought about generalizing its operation so that i...
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