• @swordsmanluke
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    7 months ago

    This is apocryphal anyway. There is a bug in Lovelace’s algorithm.

    https://twobithistory.org/2018/08/18/ada-lovelace-note-g.html

    The article is fascinating, but if you just want to jump to the end…

    bug

    one line of the algorithm has the variables swapped! It calculates v5 / v4 instead of v4 / v5. Not bad considering there wasn’t a computer to run her code on yet, much less a debugger.