On 2007-02-21, user923005 wrote:
Actually, it wasn't potassium. It was plutonium. And it wasn't
PU239. It was Archimedes Plutonium.
Maybe the copy I looked at was a bad translation. Thanks for
clarifying that.
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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 rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. [Charles Babbage]
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