Person/Ada Lovelace
Ada Lovelace
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- English mathematician, 1815–1852. Born Augusta Ada Byron, the daughter of the poet Lord Byron; later Countess of Lovelace.
- In 1843 she translated Luigi Menabrea's article on Person/Charles Babbage's Analytical/Engine and added her own notes, about three times the length of the article.
- Note G gives a method for computing Bernoulli numbers on the engine, often called the first published computer program.
- Her notes also argue that the engine could act on symbols other than numbers, such as musical notes, if their relations were expressed in its terms.
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