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On two occasions I have been asked (by members of Parliament), “Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answer come out?”. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. (Babbage (1792–1871))
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Eriksson, K., Johnson, C., Estep, D. (2004). Adaptive Solvers for IVPs. In: Applied Mathematics: Body and Soul. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05800-8_4
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