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Quotations by Charles Babbage - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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May 6, 2023, 3:36 p.m.
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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], '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