3rd May 2010, 5:53 PM
The answer to that is "eventually". It is a little surprising it got to Europe "land where fun goes to die" before us though.
"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)