"Copartnery" Quotes from Famous Books
... says Sir David, {28a} “performed only particular arithmetical operations, under a sort of copartnery between the man and the machine, the extraordinary invention of Mr Babbage actually substitutes mechanism in the place of man. A problem is given to the machine, and it solves it by computing a long series of numbers following some given law. In this manner it calculates ... — Pascal • John Tulloch |