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Re: quotation
Posted:
Aug 15, 1996 5:56 AM
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Dave Seaman (ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu) wrote:
: In article <4ussdp$1j0@ns2.ny.ubs.com>, Paul J. Bell <pjb@ny.ubs.com> wrote:
: >a friend and i have a different opinion regarding the author of the following quotation:
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: >said friend thinks that the author was Leibniz and i think that it was Gauss.
: >opinions, please, with a reference, if possible.
: I think it was Charles Babbage. I don't recognize the entire quote,
I thought of Babbage too, even before reading the first followup. Various
articles about him and the inference engine have appeared in Spektrum der
Wissenschaft (german language version of Scientific American). I think
the citation comes from the last one, about the reconstruction of the
engine for a british museum. Sorry, no date; but the index should be
enough to find it.
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* Aquiles Luna-Rodriguez //there is a bg in this line *
* Universitaet Hamburg, Germany //Nobody expects... *
* pz4a004@rrz.uni-hamburg.de //..the Spanish Inquisition! *
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