A century before the first computer existed, a young Englishwoman wrote what is now called the first algorithm for a machine that was never even built — and foresaw that such engines might one day compose music, not merely crunch numbers
In 1843 someone published a step-by-step method for a machine to carry out a calculation — now widely seen as the first algorithm ever written for a machine. The machine did not exist, was never…
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