Into Unscientific Chapter 330

  Chapter 330 Enemies meet with extreme jealousy (7.4K)

   "I'm sorry! You traitor! You still have the face to appear here?!"

  The angry words exploded like Didara's bomb, instantly quieting the noisy booth.

   Together with Sissoko.

  Xu Yun and the others turned their heads at the same time, looking at the place where the sound came from.

   Right now.

  In the booth about ten meters away from them, several people were divided into two camps with clear attitudes, confronting each other with swords drawn.

  Five people on the right and three people on the left.

  The angry voice above came from one of the three people on the left, but after seeing their faces clearly, Xiaomai shouted subconsciously:

   "Huh? Mr. Babbage and Ms. Ada?"

  In fact, Xu Yun and others also discovered the other party's identity without Mai Mai's reminder:

   At this time, the most emotional person on the left is the one who made the sound.

  Charles Babbage!

   No wonder Xu Yun felt the voice sound familiar.

  This little old man, whose name is exactly the same as the King of England in 2022, was being blocked by Earl Lovelace and Ada at this moment, looking at someone with fiery eyes.

   On the opposite side of him, that is, on the right side as everyone looked, stood six men of different ages.

   Among them, the one at the front is a man who is older than Babbage.

  This person is wearing a British gentleman's hat, leaning on a cane in his hand, and wearing a red plaid tie on his chest with personality.

It is clear.

  He is the protagonist who was madly exported by Babbage.

  However, Xu Yun's gaze only stayed on this person for half a second before he was attracted by another person behind him:

  It was a middle-aged man with short blond hair. His appearance was not bad, but his eyes were a bit fierce.

   And this is also the second time Xu Yun met with the other party after the interview meeting of the Cambridge Apostles Club.

   That's right.

   This person was the one who insulted Xu Yun with wild words at the Apostle Club, and Avelyn finally broke his head with a plate.

   Harvey Clement!

  Um, wait!

   Clement?

  After thinking of the other party's name.

  Xu Yun quickly flashed a few guesses in his mind, turned around and said to Aveline and Lao Tang:

   "Mr. Thomson, classmate Avelyn, let's go and have a look first."

   "After all. After all, the Countess of Lovelace is not in good health, and it will be bad if there is an accident."

  Aveline and Lao Tang nodded at the same time.

  This is the booth of Oxford University. The little old man who quarreled with Babbage was either a professor at Oxford or a partner. Xu Yun and the others would definitely suffer if there was a real quarrel.

   Therefore, it is the most suitable choice to use Ada as the entry point, at least try to ensure that Oxford will not be overwhelmingly biased towards the other side.

  No matter how brave they are, they dare not do anything to a countess—even if her husband is an abnormally promoted count.

   Then, including Sissoko, a group of people walked quickly towards Babbage's location.

   "Mr. Babbage."

   After coming to Babbage.

  Xu Yun, Lao Tang, and Mai Mai quickly blocked Babbage's sides first, while Avelyn held Ada's hand:

   "Are you okay?"

  The sudden appearance of the "reinforcement" made Babbage slightly astonished, but after seeing clearly that it was Xu Yun, his eyes lit up immediately, and he grabbed Xu Yun's arm:

   "Student Luo Feng!"

  Xu Yun patted his hands, nodded to Ada and Earl Lovelace, and then said to Babbage:

   "Mr. Babbage, what happened?"

  When Babbage heard this, he tightened his hand holding Xu Yun, and looked aside angrily:

   "Student Luo Feng, look at this! How shameless!"

  Xu Yun followed the trend and looked.

  I saw this moment.

  A huge piece of equipment was placed on an open field about ten meters away from them.

  The whole body of the equipment is made of copper, and the main part is four cylinders with a height of 1.5 meters and a diameter of about 40 centimeters.

  These columns are composed of superimposed gears, which look somewhat similar to the Turkish barbecue of later generations.

  There are several buttons on the side of the cylinder, and a small opening similar to the outlet of a fax machine for outputting results.

  In addition, Xu Yun also saw a steam engine, which was closely connected to the equipment and was obviously used to provide power.

   After a few seconds.

  Wheat could not help but whispered:

   "Isn't this the difference engine you designed, Mr. Babbage? Why did it appear here?"

  Babbage nodded heavily, and once again locked his eyes on the little old man opposite, his face was as ferocious as after Harland scored a goal:

   "You have to ask this Mr. Joseph Clement, this is a shameless betrayal!"

   "Enough, Charles!"

   heard Babbage's words.

  The little old man named Joseph Clement couldn't help but snorted coldly, and hammered the floor heavily with his crutches:

   "Charles, the matter between you and me has long been settled. This is the judgment made by the British Supreme Court, representing the will of the empire!"

   "Some things can't be changed even if you say them 10,000 times!"

   "Today you and my old friend met, I wanted to smile away the grievances, but I didn't expect Charles to be so stubborn"

   "Fart your mother! It's obvious that you shamelessly cheated me of my trust!"

   Babbage's face once again had an unhealthy rosiness, and Xu Yun felt his body trembling constantly:

   "At the beginning, I gave you all the funds and devoted myself to blueprint design, but what did you do?"

   "Mediocre thief! Traitor! Evil thief! Rebel!"

  Babbage's anger seems to have turned into substance, and it can be transformed into Super Saiyan II in Dragon Ball.

  Xu Yun held Babbage's hand tightly to prevent him from getting violent, and at the same time he understood the cause and effect in his heart.

   Mentioned earlier.

   There are two main reasons why the Difference Engine designed by Babbage and Ada was unsuccessful.

  One reason is that the thinking is ahead of time, far exceeding the cognition of the times.

  One step ahead is a genius, three steps ahead is a madman.

  Secondly, it was because of a person's rebound.

   This person is Babbage's most trusted engineer, and also the little old man standing in front of him

  Joseph Clement.

  The grievances between Clement and Babbage occurred in 1824, when Babbage first proposed the concept of difference engine.

  At that time, the British Treasury subsidized Babbage with 1,500 pounds, allowing him to start manufacturing a full-scale difference engine.

  Babbage's difference engine required high precision equipment, and the manufacturing process at that time was far from meeting Babbage's requirements.

   So he hired Joseph Clement to assist, and asked Clement to make the tools that could produce the parts of the Difference Engine.

  Joseph Clement was one of the top engineers at the time. Leaving aside what happened later, Joseph Clement was indeed a very strong partner.

  For example, he took an apprentice named Joseph Whitworth, who later became the inventor of the length measuring machine and gear hobbing machine.

   According to the division of functions of Babbage and Joseph Clement at that time, the steps of the production link are as follows:

  Babbage first designed a module of the Difference Engine, and then designed and built the tools to produce this module.

   This part of the funds passed through Clement's hands-he used the funds to equip mechanical tools worth thousands of pounds. These tools were designed by Babbage and invested by the government.

   But according to the law, these funds are for upgrading Clement's equipment, so the funds are Clement's property.

  It is like A designing a schematic diagram of a gear, and B going to cast the mold of the gear, and then produce the gear.

   The gear will naturally return to A in the end, but the owner of the mold is B, that is, Joseph Clement.

   So in 1834.

  Clemente finally bounced back:

  He refused to work for Babbage any more, withholding drawings and parts.

   And countersued Babbage and the British government, and finally succeeded in winning the case.

  Joseph Clement's knife directly hit Babbage's vitals, almost turning Babbage into Makoto Ito.

   Henceforth.

  The British government gave up the investment in the difference engine, even if Faraday came forward, it would be difficult to coordinate.

   In fact, this cannot be completely blamed for the shortsightedness of the British government. After all, they gave Babbage a chance in the early days.

  For the capital of the British government, they understand the contradictions among the entrepreneurial partners, but they cannot empathize with them—after all, the essence is losing money.

  Besides, from the perspective of the British government, who knows if the two are acting to defraud investment?

  This kind of thing is not uncommon, whether it is 1850 or 2022.

all in all.

  After this knife.

  Babbage's whole body was seriously injured, just like Cao Cao who defeated Chibi, he would never be able to complete the great cause of reunification in this life.

  In the later generations of Xu Yuntrau, there is a general opinion in related industries:

  The reason why Babbage was unable to produce the Difference Engine was largely because of Joseph Clement's rebound.

   This reversal directly led to Babbage having to spend a lot of time to attract investment, rarely able to really work.

   Otherwise, based on the design plan left by Babbage, the Analytical Engine may still be a bit difficult, but the possibility of the Difference Engine coming out is very high.

   Now look at this posture

  Joseph Clement should have found Oxford University with the drawings and equipment, and designed such a difference engine using Babbage's principle?

   Therefore, after Babbage saw this device, he was so angry that he couldn't add it.

   In a sense.

   This should be regarded as a tauren behavior.

   Then Xu Yun glanced at Harvey Clement who was behind Joseph Clement—that is, the middle-aged man he saw at the dinner party of the Apostles Society, the second president of the Apostles Society.

  From the name, age and position.

   Harvey Clement was either Joseph Clement's son, or a nephew or something.

  At the same time, a member of the Apostolic Society of Cambridge University will appear at the Oxford booth, which clearly shows one thing:

  Harvey Clement has completely thrown himself into the arms of the Whig Party.

   Right now.

   Harvey Clement was staring at Xu Yun with an angry target, obviously thinking of the punch at the Apostles Club dinner.

  Sissoko Hooker and Aveline, Harvey Clement and Xu Yun, Joseph Clement and Babbage.

   Six people and two camps, this can form a 3V3 of Twisted Forest.

   Seeing more and more melon-eating parties around, Sissoko, who is in charge of booth management, gradually felt the pressure.

   In addition, the confidence of Riemann and Kirchhoff had been hit twice in succession before, and the mentality of this descendant of Hooker could not help becoming a little impatient at this time.

  He frowned and looked at Babbage, ignored the little old man, but asked Avelyn directly:

   "Aveline, are you here to visit the exhibition or to mess things up? Can Cambridge University fail to show basic respect?"

   Avelyn gave him a cold look:

  "Sissoko, don't think about labeling us. Since you are the person in charge of the exhibition at Oxford University today, you must know what happened at the beginning. When it really happened, you thought Oxford was right?"

   After she finished speaking, she left her alone, turned around and said to Babbage and Ada:

   "Mr. Babbage, Mrs. Ada, I understand your feelings very well. As a Cambridge student, I am not afraid of confronting those people in Oxford."

   "But after all, this is an exposition organized by His Majesty Albert, representing the image of the royal family and even the entire empire, so look."

  At this time, although Babbage's chest was still heaving, but the whole person was much calmer than before. Hearing this, he took a deep breath and said:

   "I see, thank you, Evelyn."

   Then he turned his head, stared at Joseph Clement for a few seconds, and suddenly said:

   "Clement, since you moved this equipment to the exhibition site, you shouldn't refuse outsiders to visit, right?"

  Joseph Clement was taken aback when he heard the words, his pupils shrank slightly after he recovered, and he nodded heavily:

   "Of course, anyone can visit this device as long as it does not interfere with the exhibition."

   After finishing speaking, Joseph Clement glanced at Babbage secretly, and felt relieved when he found that he had no further action, and turned to look around:

   "Gentlemen and ladies, my name is Joseph Clement."

   "There was a little accident for some reason just now, but it doesn't matter."

   "On today's occasion, I would like to introduce to you a machine that is destined to change the world—the computer!"

  After Joseph Clement finished speaking.

  Xu Yun heard a cold snort of Babbage's disdain, but he didn't express anything else.

   Then Joseph Clement walked to the side of the machine, motioned Harvey Clement to step forward, and continued:

   "Let me introduce, this is my son, Harvey Clement, and he will assist me in demonstrating the functions of this machine for everyone."

   "But before that, I want to ask you a question, how much is one plus one?"

  Tuo, who was placed in the crowd by Oxford University in advance, raised his hand:

"2!"

  Joseph Clements nodded and gave a thumbs up:

   "Thanks to this gentleman for his cooperation, the answer is absolutely correct."

   "As you can see, one plus one is a very simple math problem, so we know the answer is 2 by mental calculation."

   "But what if it was more complicated?"

   "For example, the empire collected 22737124.76 pounds in taxes from India in January this year, and 37215073.11 pounds in February this year. So how much is the sum of the two months?"

   "What about one quarter, six months, one year?"

   "What about the other colonies?"

  Joseph Clement spread his hands and said:

   "This kind of complicated problem requires the use of pen calculations, but if the numbers are getting bigger and the names are getting more and more, there may be problems with pen calculations."

  Someone nodded.

  Due to the limited number of places in the opening ceremony, there are basically no poor people who can visit the expo on the first day, either rich or expensive.

   These middle and upper classes have access to many situations involving complex numbers, and naturally know how terrifying the error rate in the UK is in this regard.

  In fact, the direct reason why Babbage thought of the inspiration of the difference engine was the large amount of wrong data he saw in books.

   Seeing that the atmosphere was almost ready, Joseph Clement's voice suddenly raised a bit:

   "And today, I want to announce something to everyone!"

   "The computer we showed can perfectly replace manpower and perform complex number calculations!"

   "Harvey, come and give them the whole job!"

  Harvey Clements on the side nodded.

  He walked into the audience holding two whiteboards, and randomly selected two people:

   "Gentlemen, would you please write down a set of twelve digits on paper?"

  The two audience members obeyed obediently.

   After finishing.

   Harvey Clement returned to Joseph Clement with two whiteboards and gave them to his father.

  The two whispered a few words, and Harvey Clement walked to the back of the machine and started the steam engine.

   gurgling—

  The boiler on the other side began to smoke slowly, and the turntable also made a slow sound.

   A few minutes passed.

   Confirm that the power preparation is almost ready.

   Harvey Clement entered the numbers on the console.

  Joseph Clement held up the whiteboard and announced the two numbers to everyone:

   "331283947654, 593882931202."

  A small hammer on the device clicked every time Harvey Clement entered a number.

  The turntable with the pointer stuck will rotate the number of times corresponding to the number, making a clicking sound.

  People these days have never seen this kind of machine, so when Harvey Clement operated it, everyone held their breath for fear of disturbing him.

   Even Babbage and Ada—after all, this was the first time they had seen a physical demonstration of the Difference Engine.

   They had a grudge against Clement and his son, but the Difference Engine was innocent, and it could even be said to be the fruit of their hard work.

   One time.

  A needle drop can be heard on site.

after awhile.

Da da d

  A small paper strip similar to a dot timer tape emerged from the left end of the instrument little by little.

   Harvey Clement took it off, took a few glances and showed it to the public:

   "The answer is 925166878856."

  Someone at the scene had already calculated the answer with calculation paper, so after verifying that the two numbers were exactly the same, there was a huge applause and cheers at the scene.

Again.

  The audience at the scene is either rich or expensive, and some people may be bad enough to ooze pus, but they are by no means stupid.

  Computer calculation time is longer than written calculation, but this is just a twelve-digit addition.

  If the number of words continues to increase, the time difference between the two will shrink.

  At the same time, the error rate of the former remains unchanged, but the latter will soar.

  Amidst the praise of everyone, a somewhat naive voice suddenly sounded in Joseph Clement's ear:

   "Mr. Clement, can this device of yours calculate multiplication and division?"

  Because there were a lot of congratulatory people around, Joseph Clement could not avert his eyes for a while, so he replied subconsciously:

   "Multiplication and division? Of course, our device can calculate any multiplication and division within seven digits."

  The voice asked again:

   "Seven digits? Isn't twenty?"

  Joseph Clement shook his head quickly:

   "Multiplication and division with twenty digits? Of course it won't work."

   "With all due respect, this is beyond the capabilities of me and Oxford University. It is absolutely impossible."

  Joseph Clement's words were resolute, leaving no room for retreat.

   After a few seconds.

  He heard a new reply with the same tone as before, but obviously full of disappointment:

   "Ah, what kind of food is this?"

Note:

   There is a video of the calculation screen of the difference engine on the Internet. If you are interested, you can go and watch it.

  The queen passed away so suddenly yesterday that I have to change the outline now—originally this copy will end with Queen Victoria dying, but I chatted with the editor and it is not recommended for me to write in this situation.

  So I have to think of a more peaceful way to finish the transition, and tomorrow I have to drive back to my hometown, and everything will happen all of a sudden, it's annoying

  (end of this chapter)

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