day 14 of 90 days of unsoliCITED In 1843, Ada translated a French paper by Luigi Menabrea about Babbage’s proposed Analytical Engine… and then she basically said, “Cool. Now let me explain what this actually means.” Her notes (A–G) ended up way longer than the original paper. And in her notes, she walks through a step-by-step method for how the Engine could calculate Bernoulli numbers, which is why she’s often credited with writing the first published algorithm intended for a general-purpose com

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