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This mathematician added extensive notes, including a Bernoulli-number procedure, to an 1843 account of Babbage's Analytical Engine.

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Lovelace translated an article by the Italian engineer Luigi Menabrea. Source: Ada Lovelace: institutional biography ↗

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