Talk:Charles Babbage

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The "sourced" quote isn't really as interesting as listed. The full quote (from memory) is closer to;
"Dear Mr Tennyson, in your poem "Vision of Sin" you state; 'for every moment that dies a man, another man is born' this is not accurate. If it were the case the population of the world would be at a standstill. The correct value is approximately 1:1.06178, but I believe 1 and 1/16th will be sufficiently accurate for use in poetry"

An interesting insight into a brilliant (yet poetically stunted) mind, I thought.
--BlueNovember 23:10, 15 November 2008 (UTC)