Quote: at initialization, the Analytical Engine receives cards that define a sequence of operations, variables, and data

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In] the neutral or zero state of the [analytical] engine, it is ready to receive at any moment, by means of cards constituting a portion of its mechanisms (and applied on the principle of those used in the Jacquard-loom), the impress of whatever special functions we may desire to develop or to tabulate. ... These cards, however, have nothing to do with the regulation of the particular numerical data. [Other sets of cards define the variables and data.]   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1922

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