The engine is not merely adapted for tabulating the results of one particular function and of no other, but for developing and tabulating any function whatever.
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Ada Lovelace
British mathematician born in 1815, daughter of Lord Byron. She wrote the first computer program in her notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and foresaw that machines could manipulate symbols beyond mere numbers.
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Source: Notes by the Translator (Note A), 1843Verified