逐渐地，计算机也开始满足其他教学领域的需求，从计算机辅助阅读教学、数学练习程序一直到研究协助装置。
Slowly and steadily, though, computers started to fulfill other teaching needs as well, from computer-aided reading instruction to mathematics drill programs to research facilitators.
模拟计算机是用物理定律进行数学运算的通用装置。
Analogue computers are general purpose devices which employ laws of physics for performing mathematical operations.
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。
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.
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