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Reference
Menabrea, L.F.,
"Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage, With notes upon the memoir by the translator Ada Augusta, Countess of Lovelace",
Bibliotheque Universelle de Geneve, 82, October 1842.
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Other Reference
page numbers from P. Morrison and E. Morrison (ed.), Charles
Babbage and his Calculating Engines, New York: Dover Publications
1961, p. 225-297
Published before 1922
Quotations
245 ;;Quote: at initialization, the Analytical Engine receives cards that define a sequence of operations, variables, and data
| 247 ;;Quote: the Analytical Engine separated operation cards from operands and results
| 247 ;;Quote: an operation is any process which alters the mutual relation of two or more things; applies to all subjects in the universe
| 248 ;;Quote: the Analytical Engine could compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music from the relations of pitched sounds and musical composition
| 249 ;;Quote: the Analytical Engine embodies the science of operations; combines general symbols in arbitrary patterns
| 249+;;Quote: the Analytical Engine links the operations of matter with the abstract mental processes of mathematical science; a new language for analysis
| 253 ;;Quote: the cards for the Analytical Engine may contain errors; but once developed, they are valid for an infinite number of particular cases
| 261 ;;Quote: an operation card sets the mill into a specific state in which it will operate on one pair of numbers
| 264 ;;Quote: Babbage developed 'backing' to reexecute a set of cards any number of times
| 264+;;Quote: a Jaquard-loom with backing could weave symmetric and regular patterns with fewer cards
| 276 ;;Quote: define a sequence of operations with numeric operation indices, repeated cycles, and sequences
| 276+;;Quote: be careful of adding a comma between the cycle count and group of operations; otherwise get a sequence
| 284 ;;Quote: the Analytical Engine can not originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can not anticipate analytical relations or truths
| 284+;;Quote: the Analytical Engine will change many scientific subjects because it helps with analysis
| 286 ;;Quote: Lovelace showed the steps for computing the Bernoulli numbers with cycles of cycles of operations
| 286+;;Quote: Lovelace used a tabular definition with operations, variables, working variables and results
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