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Who was Ada Lovelace?

Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of Lord Byron, was the English mathematician who wrote the first computer program: her 1843 notes on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine contain a step-by-step algorithm for computing Bernoulli numbers — published a full century before the first electronic computer.

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Working from an Italian paper on Babbage's unbuilt machine, she added notes three times longer than the original, seeing what Babbage himself had missed: that a machine manipulating numbers could manipulate any symbols — and might one day compose music.

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Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of Lord Byron, was the English mathematician who wrote the first computer program: her 1843 notes on Charles Babbage's Analyt…

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