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So, what’s the difference…engine?

Posted by jgiors on 2007-03-08

Today, I found this quote by Charles Babbage on Wikipedia:

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.

Now, there’s something any programmer can sympathize with!

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