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A machine can carry out any calculation at all, however long. Punched cards tell it which operations to perform on which numbers. It keeps the numbers in a store, works on them in a mill, and chooses which cards to follow next by its own results.

#5866​·​Charles Babbage​·​November 4, 1842​·​AI-assisted
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