• 18107@aussie.zone
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    8 days ago

    “Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?”

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      8 days ago

      People laugh at that, but many predecessors to his machine would work like that. Solely because they were tricks, sure, but they did output the right answer no matter what you put in