Correct In, Garbage Out

GIGO, or Garbage In, Garbage Out, is a term that was devised way back in the early days of computing to remind us that if we put incorrect information into our machine, then we will get incorrect information back out. This may seem rather obvious, but you'd be surprised at the expectations some people have of computers. The man generally acknowledged as the inventor of the computer, Charles Babbage, was more than once asked of his new machine, if the operator puts the wrong figures in, will the machine still provide the correct answer? Babbage gave a splendid summing-up of such people's train of thought when he said

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