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Chapter 331 – A Computer Born 100 Years Earlier! (7.6K)

Chapter 331 A computer born 100 years in advance! (7.6K)

“.”

Hear this sentence ringing in my ear.

Joseph Clement instantly looked like the heroine in a short time-stopping movie, with his eyes wide open and his mouth slightly open.

Standing on the spot.

After a few seconds.

Joseph Clement recovered from his sluggishness, and suddenly turned his head to look at the person who made the sound, preparing to see where the other party came from.

As a result, seeing it this way almost didn’t make him lose his temper:

It was none other than the wheat standing beside Babbage who said those words!

At this time, there was no sign of apology for wrong words on the face of Mai Mai, and there was an exclamation of “really delicious” on his face.

Combined with his already very simple and honest appearance, it seems that what he said is a well-known common sense.

Provocation!

This is definitely a provocation instructed by Babbage!

Joseph Clement pulled a passerby aside a little violently.

Didn’t care about wheat, but frowned, and looked straight at Babbage:

“Charles! What the **** are you trying to do?”

“I have warned you, this is the International Industry Expo, not a place where you can make trouble at will!”

“If Your Majesty is angry, you and these people together will die!”

Babbage glanced at him with neurotic eyes:

“Joseph, is Nun out of his mind?”

“Don’t even think about it, if I really play tricks, you can still demonstrate this difference engine?”

Babbage’s words were straightforward, and his earlier action of pulling Xu Yun and others to the side represented his attitude—he really wasn’t going to disrupt the stage on the occasion of the exposition.

Looking at Babbage with a face full of “You have a convulsion”, Joseph Clement suddenly felt the veins on his forehead throbbing.

I saw him pointing at wheat, and asked:

“Then why did you let this kid come out and talk nonsense?”

“?”

Babbage glanced at the wheat beside him, pulled him to his side protectively, and asked:

“What the **** is he talking about?”

Joseph Clement made an aha, and laughed angrily at him:

“This young man asked me if the difference engine could calculate the multiplication and division of 20-digit numbers—it’s fine to ask such a meaningless question. After I answered it, I actually said that I said that my equipment is rubbish, which is really unreasonable!”

According to Joseph Clement’s idea.

The reason why this stunned young man named Wheat jumped out must be Babbage’s plan to stop losses.

Next, Babbage should reply unreasonably, “The child is just kidding”, and then he will either be ridiculed by himself – this possibility is relatively small, or he will use this as an opportunity to say hello and leave the scene in despair.

So he slightly puffed up his chest, ready to send out a wave of talk.

clinker

Babbage just blinked, then nodded:

“Sorry. I don’t seem to understand. Did Maxwell say something wrong?”

“A difference engine that can only calculate eight-digit multiplication and division is really good.”

“.”

Hearing Babbage’s reply, Joseph Clement fell silent for no reason.

After a few seconds.

Sissoko Hook, who was standing beside him, suddenly heard a crackling sound—it was the collision of the back molars due to excitement:

“what are you saying?”

Sissoko Hook turned his head quickly.

I saw this moment.

Joseph Clement, a gentleman who has always been personable and dignified, can no longer see the elegance and reserve he had before.

I saw him open his mouth and move his eyes, his beard and hair were all stretched out, and his emotions were even more agitated than Babbage’s before:

“Charles Babbage, what are you kidding?! Don’t think you can boast here just because you designed some blueprints!”

“Unless Fat Fish revives the difference engine capable of calculating twenty-digit multiplication and division, no one will be able to do it in fifty years, let alone now!”

“If you don’t give a reasonable explanation today, the title I fought for will be taken away, and I will drag you to seek justice in front of His Majesty and the Queen!”

Harvey Clement also took a step forward when he heard the words, and stood beside his father.

Straightened his chest, showing his badge of a member of the House of Commons, expressing his support.

Sissoko came to the other side of Joseph Clement, adding momentum to the Oxford University partner.

Seeing the resolute expressions of the three teasers in front of him, Babbage couldn’t help but exchanged glances with Xu Yun, Laotang and the others, and they burst out laughing.

Later, Lao Tang walked up to Joseph Clement, looked him up and down, and asked:

“Mr. Joseph, would you like an explanation?”

Joseph Clement lingered for a while on the badge of the President of the Cambridge University Student Union on Lao Tang’s chest, still panting heavily:

“Of course, this matter must be explained to me. Even if you are the president of the Students’ Union of Cambridge University, don’t try to talk about it!”

Old Tang Jian said lightly nodded and said casually:

“I see, Mr. Joseph, please come with me.”

Joseph Clement was still angry at this time, and a question mark subconsciously appeared on his face when he heard this:

“where to?”

Old Tang shrugged at him:

“Of course I’m taking you to see a machine that can perform twenty-digit multiplication and division, Caibi.”

The last two words in Lao Tang’s words were Chinese learned from Xu Yun, so Joseph Clement did not know the lethality of these two words.

At this moment, his attention was entirely on the first half of Lao Tang’s sentence:

“Take you to see a machine capable of multiplying and dividing twenty-digit numbers”.

These words are like the speed of a car in the newspaper boy’s book, and they wiped out Joseph Clement’s stored momentum.

Between astonishment.

He unconsciously followed Lao Tang’s footsteps.

But just a few steps away, Harvey Clement stepped forward and grabbed him:

“Father, Father!”

My son’s phrase “Where are you going, daddy” worked well, and Dang even brought Joseph Clement back to reality.

After regaining consciousness.

He blinked.

The heart suddenly began to beat rapidly.

As Babbage’s partner for nearly 20 years, he is well aware of Babbage’s situation after he jumped back:

Depressed and even close to madness, I have to look for alms from the benefactor every few days.

Only a very small amount of time can be used for drawing design.

in this case.

Even if Babbage’s talent is high, it is absolutely impossible to design a machine that can multiply and divide twenty-digit numbers.

But on the other hand.

Now the other party said so confidently at the expo, which is obviously contrary to common sense:

It is possible that Babbage went crazy alone, but Ada, that idiot fan, accompanied him to try to explain the past.

But together with people like Mai Mai, Lao Tang, and Xu Yun, the probability of this disease is very low.

Except for the possibility of going crazy, the rest is .

They really designed such a machine?

Think here.

Joseph Clement could not help but take a deep breath, pondered for a moment, and hit his crutch heavily:

“Harvey, follow them!”

Harvey Clemente nodded, supported his father and followed behind Lao Tang.

Sissoko Hook hesitated for a moment when he saw this, gritted his teeth, and left the Oxford booth with a few people.

As the figures of several people go away,

Other audience at the exhibition site, you look at me, and I look at you.

Just like the gossip party waiting to eat the big melon of the three-character artist on the Mid-Autumn Festival in 2022, the bustling crowd followed.

“B3 Booth B4B6”

After walking along the industrial exhibition area for a while.

Lao Tang and Xu Yun stopped in front of a booth:

“Here we come, B14!”

The size of this booth is not much smaller than that of Oxford, with a red and white pattern floating above it.

Xu Yun is so familiar with this pattern, it is the emblem of Cambridge University.

In other words.

The booth where Xu Yun and the others arrived was the booth of Cambridge University at the World Expo.

At the same time, it is different from Oxford University, which has Cisco Hooker in charge of the scene.

The person in charge of the Cambridge University booth is Xu Yun and Mai’s cheap mentor, George Stokes.

Seeing Lao Tang leading a group of people to his booth, Stokes hastily greeted him:

“Good morning, Mr. Thomson, this is you.”

Old Tang nodded to him, and then the two icebergs started whispering.

After listening to Lao Tang’s narration process.

Stokes glanced at the crowd gradually coming up, pondered for a moment, and said to Lao Tang:

“Student Thomson, although we are ready to exhibit that device, after all, it is a backup in case of necessity”

“As far as I know, it’s far from complete.”

“You and Mr. Charles are professionals in this field, so I hope you can give me a letter of approval—if it is brought to the booth now, will there be any mistakes or omissions in the demonstration results?”

Lao Tang shook his head decisively:

“Professor Stokes, don’t worry, there will be no accidents, if you don’t believe me, I can do it”

As Lao Tang said, he turned around and glanced at Maimai, and found that Maimai didn’t bring an ax today, he hesitated slightly, and then shook his head regretfully:

“Forget it. I can’t guarantee you without the axe. In short, don’t worry, there will be no mistakes.”

Seeing that Lao Tang was so determined, Stokes no longer persisted:

“Okay, I will arrange for people to remove the protective cloth now.”

After Stokes left.

Harvey Clement also helped Joseph Clement to the booth of Cambridge University.

Then without waiting for his father to speak, Harvey Clement asked first:

“Thomson, where is your explanation? Where is it?”

Lao Tang frowned and glanced at the second president of the Apostolic Society, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes.

Now that their conflicts have reached the point of irreconcilability, Lao Tang will naturally not show him any good looks, so he replied dryly:

“Mr. Congressman, are you a little too anxious?”

“Since I brought you to the Cambridge exhibition hall, I will naturally give a reasonable explanation.”

“The harder you yell now, the more painful your face will be when you get hit—have you forgotten what happened the night of the interview at the Apostle Club?”

When Harvey Clement heard this, a look of anger surged on his face.

at the same time.

There were also two faint pains in his stomach and forehead.

Of course he didn’t forget that humiliating night, a perfect interview dinner for the Apostles Club, which was abruptly messed up by Xu Yun and Avelyn.

Although the final result was that Laotang and Avelyn quit the Apostolic Society at the same time, Rossetti and the Whig camp won a big victory.

But he was punched hard by Xu Yun, and Aveline smashed his head with a plate, and it took him quite a while to recover.

But soon.

Harvey Clement thought of something, and the light in his eyes became flickering:

“You wait for me, in a few months, I must watch you”

But the idea has not yet disappeared.

Harvey Clement’s thoughts were interrupted by Stokes who returned to the crowd again:

“Everyone, the machine is ready.”

Hear this statement.

Harvey Clement suddenly felt his arms loosen, and when he looked up, he realized that his father had already walked forward on crutches.

So he had no choice but to follow quickly.

I saw this moment.

In the middle of the open space seven or eight meters away from them, there is a very strange-looking device:

It is the same as Clement’s Difference Engine, with an obvious steam engine power source on one side.

At the same time, there are connecting tools such as counting needles and derivative hammers.

Judging from these devices, it is obviously also a computing device.

But where it should have stored a large number of gears, it was occupied by more than a dozen transparent glass tubes filled with mercury.

These glass tubes are about one meter long and about ten centimeters in diameter, and some complicated coils are wound around the outside.

If you look closely, you can see some other small parts.

See this scenario.

Joseph Clement frowned suddenly.

What the **** is this?

If Babbage’s machine looks the same as his Difference Engine, then he can feel relieved:

Because today’s design ideas can never achieve the effect of calculating twenty digits.

But the machine in front of me is a bit strange

Just as Joseph Clement was frowning, Lao Tang walked over.

In his hand, he handed two calculation papers to Harvey Clement and Joseph Clement respectively:

“Two gentlemen, in order to avoid being labeled as pre-placed results and falsifying the whole text, let the two write down the numbers themselves.”

“Let’s verify multiplication this time. The sum of multipliers with 20 digits can’t exceed 20 digits and can’t be 1. Surely both of you understand this truth?”

Joseph Clement snorted coldly and nodded.

The so-called operable numbers of a difference engine can be divided into two types according to the algorithm.

The operand of addition and subtraction refers to the number to the left of the equal sign.

That is, addend and subtrahend/minuend in mathematics. (I don’t remember whether there is an addend for addition.)

The output terminal, that is, the sum or difference on the right side of the equal sign, will be one bit larger than the addend and the subtrahend/minuend.

That is, the operation of three-digit addition can be 333+333=666, or 999+999=1998.

Multiplication and division are different.

The operands of multiplication and division refer to the product or quotient, which is the number on the right side of the equal sign.

The sum of the values to the left of the equal sign must be less than or equal to the operand, even if the operand X1 is still not acceptable.

Don’t ask why, the logic designed by Babbage is like this.

Although Clement and his son hoped that Babbage would die early, this kind of rule still had to be followed—or it could be said that there are so many people with mixed eyes that they had to follow it.

Then soon.

The Clements wrote down two tens digits on the paper:

8283749219.

9923463548.

Lao Tang took the paper and returned to the equipment.

First wrote the two sets of numbers on the cardboard for public announcement, and then handed them over to Babbage:

“Mr. Babbage, God bless you with success.”

Babbage thanked him, took two pieces of paper, glanced at them, and said to Ada:

“Ada, turn it on.”

Ada took a deep breath when he heard the words, and pressed the start button with solemn eyes.

gurgling—

With the sound of the steam engine starting.

Babbage’s mood also followed.

It’s been 31 years.

31 years ago.

During a chat with John Herschel, he came up with the idea of the difference engine and started the related design.

1822.

He submitted a paper entitled “On the Application of Mechanism to Astronomical and Mathematical Table Calculations” to the Royal Astronomical Society.

The concept of difference engine was officially launched.

1824.

The Royal Astronomical Society awarded him the gold medal representing the highest honor, in recognition of his invention of the difference engine.

At the age of 32, he was concurrently the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, and he was in the limelight for a while.

He thought that in the next thirty years, the whole world would admire his name.

However, when the time flies by, the years turn the page.

He realized that what he was facing was not glory, but criticism, slander and ridicule.

The subsequent blows brought him infinitely close to the brink of collapse.

And just when he thought he would regret this for the rest of his life, Time made another joke with him.

A young man from the East found him and offered him a generous contract and a lot of exquisite design ideas.

The conversion of sound and electricity information directly increased the computing power of the entire analysis machine to a level that even Babbage could hardly imagine.

Scholar dies for his confidant.

In the last month.

He and Ada have broken through the 20-digit multiplication and division operation, the accuracy rate

100%!

Although this calculation range is still far from the 35-digit calculation that Xu Yun agreed with him at the beginning, Xu Yun’s star-seeking plan still needs at least a few months to start.

But for Cambridge University.

This is a hole card!

So under the discussion of the school director, this unfinished analytical machine was moved to the Cambridge booth.

According to the plan.

If the other exhibits of Cambridge University can withstand the impact of Oxford University. Even if it is temporarily defeated by a slight disadvantage, this equipment will not be exhibited.

But now Oxford University has come up with a fax machine and a difference machine that is inferior to the analysis machine but still has a crushing advantage.

The original anti-stress plan was disrupted.

Even if Babbage and the Clements would not quarrel, the device would still be officially unveiled.

Then Babbage pulled his mind back to reality, and looked around.

Right now.

His fingers slowly pressed down on the keys, typing characters.

The touch of the button feedback is inexplicably subtle, and he feels like a pianist reporting a performance, doing a report on the stage of an opera house.

It’s a pity that Xu Yun couldn’t read Babbage’s thoughts.

Otherwise, he will complain about the level, those who hit the keyboard in the later generations are also pianists, but they are fighting for the account book in Zaan

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“82837”

Babbage concentrated on pressing a few numbers, and at the same time said to Ada:

“Ada, is the program running normally?”

At this time, Ada didn’t see the elegance of a countess at all. She was sitting on a small stool, unaware that the soles of her shoes had stepped on her skirt, and wiped her forehead when she heard the words:

“Everything is fine, you can continue typing!”

Babbage nodded and continued to press the numbers.

One minute later.

The two factors are entered.

Babbage pressed another red button, representing output.

Snapped-

Less than two seconds.

A note slowly popped out.

Lao Tang stepped forward to take a look at the note, and then immediately announced it to the public in order to avoid suspicion:

“82203483415519345212.”

at the same time.

Bada—

In Hisoko Hooker’s ear, there was a sound of a pen falling suddenly.

He was about to turn his head when he saw a piece of calculation paper flying slowly in front of him.

So he subconsciously grabbed the piece of paper and spread it out in front of him.

I saw a number on the top of this piece of paper:

82203483415519345212.

A full twenty digits, exactly the same as the one in Lao Tang’s hand.

Immediately after his left arm, there was a sudden sense of oppression with a slip.

After a few seconds.

In this booth of Cambridge University, there was a sudden exclamation:

“Mr. Joseph, what’s wrong with you? Come on, find a doctor, Mr. Joseph has passed out!!”

Note:

Today is really unlucky to the extreme. Only readers who watched the video from the book friends group can understand my despair. It is so bizarre that no one will believe it without video evidence. QAQ

(end of this chapter)