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This letter from Ada Lovelave to Charles Babbage proposes an example of a calculation that 'may be worked out
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This letter from Ada Lovelave to Charles Babbage proposes an example of a calculation that 'may be worked out by the engine without having been worked out by human head and hands first'. It is the first time that the principle of the computer program had been set out in writing.
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Letter from Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage. Author: Lovelace, Ada / 2 May 1842 Source/Shelfmark: Add. 37192, ff.362v - 363

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