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1. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 15:26:56 UTC Robert McNees

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   Babbage had sketched out routines for the Engine before, some recorded in his notes. And Menebrea had previously published what Lovelace called "diagrams of development" for simple routines involving the successive application of elementary operations.

   In Note G, Lovelace gives a complete description of a routine for calculating Bernoulli Numbers. Unlike Menebrea's simple routines, the instructions she lays out involve loops and branching.

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