I think the page should start with the mechanical calculators of
Schickard[?],
Blaise Pascal and
Gottfried Leibniz.
Also, Zuse[?]'s and Alan Turing's work is missing.
Anybody know more about the eighteenth century polynomial solver that's mentioned in the difference engine section?
If Univac was a 1000 times faster - what were its competitors?
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