12th June 2005, 6:11 PM
Well I was just attempting to reveal the accepted nature of it, you know, more than just "it's just a trick".
"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)