On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Nationality: English Type: Mathematician Born: December 26, 1792 Death: October 18, 1871 |
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