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Herding Cats

On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?". I may not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question - Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher (1864), Chapter 5, "Difference Engine No.1".