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{{Short description|Automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions}}
{{For|the novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling|The Difference Engine}}
[[File:Babbage Difference Engine.jpg|thumb|The London [[Science Museum (London)|Science Museum]]'s difference engine, the first one actually built from Babbage's design. The design has the same precision on all columns, but in calculating polynomials, the precision on the higher-order columns could be lower.]]