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                    blog:pushbx:2023:0511_wrong_inputs [2023-05-11 18:56:36 +0200 May Thu] (current) ecm created                 | 
            
        
|   | ====== Wrong inputs ====== | 
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|   | <blockquote>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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|   | <cite>Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), ch. 5 "Difference Engine No. 1"</cite></blockquote> | 
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|   | Copied for the blog from https://libquotes.com/charles-babbage/quote/lbr2z8s | 
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|   | {{tag>idioms}} | 
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                blog/pushbx/2023/0511_wrong_inputs.txt · Last modified: 2023-05-11 18:56:36 +0200 May Thu by ecm