During a nine-month period in 1842–1843,
Ada Lovelace translated the memoir of Italian mathematician
Luigi Menabrea about
Charles Babbage's newest proposed machine, the
analytical engine. With the article she appended a set of notes which specified in complete detail a method for calculating
Bernoulli numbers with the engine, recognized by some historians as the world's first computer program.
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<span>During a nine-month period in 1842–1843, Ada Lovelace translated the memoir of Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea about Charles Babbage's newest proposed machine, the analytical engine. With the article she appended a set of notes which specified in complete detail a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers with the engine, recognized by some historians as the world's first computer program. [1]
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