15th April 2003, 11:31 AM
Well then, can ya source me with some official data on this? Otherwise, I'll just have to assume it's a very popularized urban legend. I'll need something straight from the horse's mouth.
"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)