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Passages from the Life of a Philosopher. Charles Babbage
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Автор произведения Charles Babbage
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23 It discovers the roots of equations by feeling whether all the figures in a certain column are zeros.
24 It may be necessary to explain to the unmathematical reader and to the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer that impossible quantities in algebra are something like mare’s-nests in ordinary life.
Yet should any unexpected course of events ever raise the {111} ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer to his former dignity, I am sure he will be its friend as soon as he is convinced that it can be made useful to him.
It may possibly enable him to un-muddle even his own financial accounts, and to———
But as I have no wish to crucify him, I will leave his name in obscurity.
The Herostratus of Science, if he escape oblivion, will be linked with the destroyer of the Ephesian Temple.
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