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In 184? Charles Babbage gave a talk in Turin? about his analytical engine. [Luis Menabrea]? then wrote up Babbage's lecture in French.

Babbage asked Ada Lovelace to translate Menabrea's paper into English. He then asked Lady Ada to augment the notes she had added to the translation, and she did so.

These notes, which are said to be more extensive than Menabrea's paper, were then published in The Ladies Diary and Scientific Memoirs. According to Linda Talisman on [1] "Baum cites:

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