The Difference Engine: Houston, we have a problem…

差分机：休斯顿，我们有一个问题…

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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。

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Although it took 150 years to complete, the Difference Engine No. 2 works exactly as Babbage planned, computing - and even printing - table after table of super-accurate data.

虽然花了150年来完成，差分机2号工作得完全符合巴贝奇所料想，计算——甚至打印出一张一张超高精度的表。

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When he built the Difference Engine, this route was not available he said.

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Some alternate-history novels have envisioned a separate Texas, notably 1990's "The Difference Engine" by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, which explores what might have happened to the world had computers been perfected in Britain a century earlier.

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The difference is that the huge screen and wicked fast Java engine make this phone a pleasure to play games on.

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