Quiz: FF Charles Babbage

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What motivated Charles Babbage to design his Difference Engines?

In the 1800's people did know how to hand-calculate logarithms but the tables published in books contains errors. So he designed a machine to do these calculations (and avoid human errors)..

Modern scientists estimate that Babbbage's Analytical Engine has the equivalent of ______ bytes of memory.

675

Modern scientists have calculated that Babbages's Analytical Engine runs at a clock rate of about ______ Hz.

7

Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was programmable via punched cards. The first person to write a program for this machine (and thus the first "programmer") was:

Ada Lovelace

Charles Babage is know for being a:

All of the above

In his lifetime, Charles Babbage did complete a working version of his Difference Engine 1

False

A working version of Difference Engine No. 2 was completed in 1991 based on the blueprints of Charles Babbage. True/False

True

Well into the 1800s many scientists were also known as philosophers

True


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