> :: Mayhaps a few decades prior, if you mean the electronic digital
> :: variety.
> :: And a good century before that for the true digital type as we
> :: would
> :: understand the term.

> As I pressed send, Mr Babbage appeared before me spinning on his cogs.

With Countess Ada Lovelace looking on, more in sorrow than anger.

The Appendix 1 of said book is brilliant. It's a paper on Babbage's
machine written originally in Italian and translated and annotated by
Ada with extensive added mathematical notes.



                  R
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