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by jhbadger
2831 days ago
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Indeed. Before there were computers, in fact. In his 1864 autobiography, Charles Babbage wrote: "On two occasions I have been asked, — 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." |
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