Chapter 487: Cross-Era Invention

...Difference engine?

Aiwass was momentarily stunned.

Not because he didn't know... quite the opposite, it was because he knew too much.

The knowledge from two worlds was intertwined, leaving Aiwass's mind somewhat confused.

In another world, Charles Babbage was an inventor in England. He invented a machine for processing and computing complex data, which could directly print results; this machine was called the difference engine.

The so-called "difference" refers to transforming complex function table calculations into difference calculations, using addition instead of square calculations. He even designed another, more complex machine—a programmable general-purpose computer, called the analytical engine. This concept can be said to be the precursor to modern computers.