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During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine, the forerunner of the modern digital computer. In 1843 Babbage's friend mathematician Ada Lovelace translated a French paper about the Analytical Engine and, in her own annotations, published how it could perform a sequence of calculations, the first computer program.
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