... in the rooms of the Analytical Society, at Cambridge, my head leaning forward on the Table in a kind of dreamy mood, with a Table of logarithms lying open before me. Another member, coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, "Well,... British Almanac and Companion - Page 41866Full view - About this book
| Emily Abruzzo - 2007 - 252 pages
...seeing me half asleep, called out, Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about?" to which l replied "l am thinking that all these tables" (pointing to the logarithms) "might be calculated by machinery."11 lf we dive deeper into the production of specific body blankets, we find that the historical... | |
| Henry Allon - 1865 - 578 pages
...room and seeing me half asleep, called out, " Well, Babbage, what are you dreaming about? " To which I replied, " I am thinking that all these tables (pointing...logarithms) might be calculated by machinery." The event must have happened either in 1812 or 1813. 'About 1819 I was occupied with devising means for... | |
| Herman H. Goldstine - 1993 - 404 pages
...room, and seeing me half asleep, called out, "Well, Babbage, what arc you dreaming about?" to which I replied, "I am thinking that all these Tables (pointing...the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery." Í am indebted to my friend, the Rev. Dr. Robinson, the Master of the Temple, for this anecdote. The... | |
| Brian Winston - 1998 - 389 pages
...he was a founder member) and when questioned by another member as to what he was dreaming about, he replied, 'I am thinking that all these Tables (pointing...the logarithms) might be calculated by machinery' (Goldstine 1972; 11: Hyman 1984:49-50). By 1823 Babbage had convinced the British government of the... | |
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