gigo

Nov. 23rd, 2011 07:07 pm
dragonyphoenix: Blackadder looking at scraps of paper, saying "It could use a beta" (i have no mouth and i must squee)
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On two occasions I have been asked, "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, mathematician and computer scientist (1791-1871)

As a computer programmer by trade, I couldn't resist this quote.
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Date: 2011-11-24 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dragonyphoenix.livejournal.com
Thanks. The title, gigo, stands for garbage in; garbage out, which is so axiomatic in comuter science that all you need to say is gigo, and everyone gets it.

I hope you're having a good Thanksgiving. My Dad is visiting until Monday and Leslie, a friend, is coming over to join us for dinner. So this is a quick break from cooking, although we did just finish watching the National Dog Show (NBC) which has become a holiday tradition for me and Dad.

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