On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" … I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage
The output of a system depends on its input. A scientist can't find solutions using faulty data. An Olym…
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