In many cases, ship officers must resort to the use of some fundamental mathematical tables.

在许多情况下船员必须使用基本数学演算的表。

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With that single macro, you can take away a lot of work for any program that has to generate mathematical tables indexed by integer.

使用这一个宏，就可以节省很多编程的工作，它可以生成一个使用整数进行索引的数学表。

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Babbage, Charles (1792~1871) : British mathematician and inventor, educated at Cambridge University, he devoted himself from about 1812 to devising machines capable of calculating mathematical tables.

巴贝奇（1792～1871）：英国数学家和发明家；曾在剑桥大学就读；约自1812年开始致力于研究能够计算数学表格的机械装置。

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Just as Babbage had proposed, the machine was employed to calculate astronomical and mathematical tables.

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Even if the engine produced the correct answers, there was still the risk that a transcription or typesetting error would result in the finished mathematical tables being inaccurate.

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