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Charles Babbage, looking ahead to the sorts of problems his Analytical Engine would be able to solve, gave this example: what is the smallest
The task is to find out—and to do so, as far as your language allows it, in code that Babbage himself would have been able to read and understand. For these purposes, Charles Babbage may be taken to be an intelligent person, familiar with mathematics and with the idea of a computer, who has never programmed—in fact, who has never so much as seen a single line of code. The aim of the task is to write a program that is sufficiently clear and well-documented for such a person to be able to read it and be confident that it does indeed solve the specified problem.
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