For #ArtAdventCalendar Day 10: Happy birthday to Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), who published the first computer program. She worked together with Charles Babbage, the inventor of the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine (the first - analogue! - #computers), correcting his notes on how to calculate Bernoulli Numbers with the Analytical Engine. 🧵1/n
@minouette Babbage's engines were not analogue, they were digital. The fact that the digits used were decimal and not binary should not confuse you here. There are analogue computers, of course, but they are quite different.
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