20th June 2007, 2:34 PM
Just get a computer to do the work then. Is a networked computer system that simply does calculations on the fly that hard to implement? Explain why in 30 seconds.
"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)