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Note G
- kibwen 3y agoThere's something poetically beautiful about the fact that the first computer program also contains the first bug. The Original Sin of computer science.
- paulette449 3y agoI've known of Ada Lovelace since I first got into computers four decades ago, but how did I not know she was the daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron [1]. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron
- Gys 3y agoThank you for this very interesting link. One tidbit: > Her mother was anxious about her upbringing and promoted Ada's interest in mathematics and logic in an effort to prevent her from developing her father's perceived insanity.
- acqq 3y agoHere a paper can be found about running the "cards" created by Rainer Glaschick based on the program described in Lady Lovelace's Note G on a modified emulator of the Babbage's analytical engine: https://rclab.de/analyticalengine/lovelace_noteg_paper https://rclab.de/analyticalengine/lovelace_noteg_paper And the text by the author of that emulator about the authenticity of the emulator: https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/authentic.html https://www.fourmilab.ch/babbage/authentic.html Note that the sizes of what we would today call "registers" in what we would today call "ALU" were, per 1837 description 40, per 1864 description 50 decimal digits, much bigger than the number of mantissa decimals in common "float" (7) or "double" (15) floating point representations, and the assumption of the engine was to use fixed point decimal arithmetic.