6th August 2010, 12:46 PM
Great Rumbler Wrote:It's not exactly some secret that nobody knows about.
Yeah I know it's not a secret, but at the same time it's new to me, and for that matter I bet most people have no idea that's the case. Like I said, not a single one of the friends or family I talked to knew about it. That's anecdotal, but still.
"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)