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For a few of us, the phrase "put your calculators away for this examination" will at all times elicit anxiety, but these calculator-free exams give us a taste of what life was like for Charles Babbage. The English inventor and mathematician, born in 1791, was tasked with poring over mathematical tables in the hunt for errors. Such tables have been generally used in fields like astronomy, banking and engineering, and since they had been generated by hand, they usually contained mistakes. ...

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