lovelace project

Horse Racing Analytics

....she used to correspond on mathematical matters with Professor Charles Babbage of Cambridge who, inspired by the machines used by the Continental jacqard weavers for repeating patterns in woven cloth, tried to build a "mathematical engine" that would work by itself. When Babbage had exhausted his own fortune on the project, Ada and her husband chipped in with some finance, because she was convinced that with such an engine the form of horses could be determined.....                                                                                                                                                                          -  from "The Art of Legging " by C. Sidney

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