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 to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
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Charles Babbage я как-то очень живо представляю себе этих вопрошавших
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