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The analytical engine possessed theoretically unlimited powers of calculation, the recognition of which by Babbage anticipated Alan Turing's demonstration, a hundred years later, that even a very simple analytical engine, given an unlimited supply of cards, can compute any computable function–though it may take a very, very long time. "The Analytical Engine is therefore a machine of the most general nature," explained Babbage, who understood the value of reusable coding, although programs (referred to as "laws of operation") were not so named.
10 Leibniz saw binary arithmetic as both a practical aid to calculation and a logical calculus leading from the simple to the complex. Multiplication and division could be simplified by switching to numbers encoded in binary form. His notes show the development of simple algorithms, or step-by-step mechanical procedures, for translating between decimal and binary notation and for performing the basic functions of arithmetic as mechanically iterated operations on strings of Os and Is. In 1679, Leibniz imagined a digital computer in which binary numbers were represented by spherical pellets, circulating within a kind of pinball machine governed by a rudimentary form of punched-card control.
Butler, Cook, and I would repair to the sitting-room, and round a glorious fire smoked or read or listened to Butler's piano. "11 Erewhon and all the books that followed (until Erewhon Revisited in 1901) were published at Butler's own expense. The success of his nonfiction was uneven at best. A secure reputation had to await his autobiographical, anti-Victorian novel. The Way of all Flesh, which Butler left unpublished lest his relatives take offense. This courtesy Was not extended to anyone else.