"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 answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."10/10 for the way he describes that weird feeling of incredulity you get when techno-dumbos say something stupid. The ancients always did have a knack for subtlety.
This just came up because I was doing First Order Predicate Logic, and remembered the old 'Falsity implies anything' business. In other words, the right answers may or may not come out. It depends on the calculation you happen to be making. False premises can imply true conclusions, or false ones. That's why you should always be sure of the veracity of your basic assumptions.
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