Lovelace's Program: Part 11 - the Language of the Table
Oct 21, 2024 · 18 min read · This is the eleventh part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program. In an earlier post I talked about the programming language that was used by Ada L...
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Lovelace's Program: Part 10 - The Typos and Bugs
Oct 14, 2024 · 16 min read · This is the tenth part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program. In a previous post I gave a summary of changes to Ada Lovelace’s table program that ...
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Lovelace's Program: Part 9 - The First Computer Program
Oct 8, 2024 · 37 min read · This is the ninth part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program. A shorter version with less technical background is posted on Ambling along the Aque...
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Lovelace's Program: Part 8 - Going Beyond "human head & hands"
Oct 1, 2024 · 27 min read · This is the eighth part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program My last post was the culmination of my efforts to get Ada Lovelace’s program to run ...
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Lovelace's Program: Part 7 - Computing the Bernoulli Numbers to an indefinite extent, from the very beginning
Sep 22, 2024 · 15 min read · This is the seventh part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program OK, in my last post, I got my C transliteration of Lovelace's program computing the...
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Part 6: Computing the Bernoulli Numbers to an Indefinite Extent
Sep 15, 2024 · 9 min read · This is the sixth part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program A Recap In my last post, I ran Ada Lovelace's program and it output the right answer....
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Part 5: A Better Second Run
Sep 8, 2024 · 14 min read · This is the fifth part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program In my last post, I tried a first run of Lovelace's program. Unfortunately, it generat...
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Part 4: a First Run Attempt
Sep 1, 2024 · 9 min read · This is the fourth part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program In the previous blog post, I gave some background on what it has meant to run a prog...
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Part 3: What Does It Mean to "Run" a Program?
Aug 25, 2024 · 10 min read · This is the third part of a series of blog posts taking a deep look into Ada Lovelace's 1843 computer program, starting with Part 1: First Look at the First Program In my earlier posts, I gave a quick read through of Ada Lovelace’s program in her “No...
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