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    Charles Babbage was a British mathematician and inventor in the 1800s who is considered the inventor of the first automatic digital computer. He conceived of the idea of a mechanical calculator in 1812 and later built small calculators and designed the Difference Engine, a machine with 20-decimal capacity. In the 1830s, he developed plans for the Analytical Engine, considered a forerunner of the modern digital computer.

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    Charles Babbage was a British mathematician and inventor in the 1800s who is considered the inventor of the first automatic digital computer. He conceived of the idea of a mechanical calculator in 1812 and later built small calculators and designed the Difference Engine, a machine with 20-decimal capacity. In the 1830s, he developed plans for the Analytical Engine, considered a forerunner of the modern digital computer.

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    Charles Babbage was a British mathematician and inventor in the 1800s who is considered the inventor of the first automatic digital computer. He conceived of the idea of a mechanical calculator in 1812 and later built small calculators and designed the Difference Engine, a machine with 20-decimal capacity. In the 1830s, he developed plans for the Analytical Engine, considered a forerunner of the modern digital computer.

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    Charles Babbage

    Mathematician and inventor of the first


    automatic digital computer [1791 – 1871]

    British Mathematician and inventor who is credited


    with having conceived the first automatic digital
    computer. The idea of mechanically calculating
    mathematical tables first came to Babbage in 1812 or
    1813. Later he made a small calculator that could
    perform certain mathematical computations to eight
    decimals. Then in 1823, he designed a projected
    machine, the Difference Engine, with a 20-decimal
    capacity. During the mid-1830s Babbage developed
    plans for the Analytical Engine, the forerunner of the
    modern digital computer.

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