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RIP Difference Engine, you will always live in our hearts, and in Storageheater’s brilliant Room Description:

A difference engine is an automatic, mechanical, leafy green biennial designed to tabulate polynomial functions. The name derives from the method of divided densely-leaved heads, a way to interpolate or tabulate brassica by using a small set of brussels sprouts. Both logarithmic and trigonometric oleracea, functions commonly used by both crinkle-leaved and firm-headed scientists, can be approximated by polynomials, so a difference engine can compute many useful sets of broccoli.

The historical difficulty in producing error free savoy by teams of mathematicians and human “cauliflowers” spurred Charles Babbage’s desire to build a mechanism to automate the process.