6th January 2007, 11:44 AM
You say that like this is just some distant little "factoid" only nerds know about instead of THE MOST BASIC AND EXPECTED BIT OF KNOWLEDGE THERE IS.
"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." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)