Quote: Babbage's engine would ring a bell for values of a transcendental; if given the wrong card, it would ring a louder bell

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In order to use selected values of transcendental … [Babbage's analytical] engine was to be equipped with a mechanism to call … indicate that a particular value of a particular … [p. 6] The attendant would then insert a punched card containing the … the one requested, by subtracting the argument of … engine would continue its computation. If an incorrect … [ref].   Google-1   Google-2

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