<div dir="ltr">The Analytical Engine was base 10, wasn't it? That definitely doesn't take away from the interest of the question of what Babbage knew about the possibilities of binary arithmetic, of course!</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 6:07 PM Ceruzzi, Paul <<a href="mailto:CeruzziP@si.edu">CeruzziP@si.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I got a chance to see the play this weekend. (The run ends next week.) I really enjoyed it. I am not a theater critic, so I will leave it at that. It has some artistic license, of course, but none of the howlers that ruined "The Imitation Game," thank goodness.
I hope it can be staged elsewhere.</div>
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One question I have for the SIG: Babbage obviously knew of Leibniz's work, but was he familiar with Leibniz's writing on what we now call binary arithmetic? If so, what did Babbage think of it? I mention this because binary comes up in the play in several
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This message is a little late, and it may appeal only to those of you in the DC area, although I believe the play will be staged in other cities. I haven't seen it yet but plan to next week. A play about Ada Augusta and Charles Babbage:</div>
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