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Some didn't appreciate my attempt at humor. Trees, meet forest. Forest, meet trees.
==Early Life==
==Early Life==
Although she was the only legitimate child of of the famous British poet [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Lord Byron]], she had virtually no relationship with him, given his death when she was only nine years old.
Although she was the only legitimate child of of the famous British poet [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Lord Byron]], she had virtually no relationship with him, given his death when she was only nine years old.
She was born Augusta Ada Byron, and called by her middle name as a child. She married William King, who later became Earl of Lovelace, making her "Countess of Lovelace". She has been called Augusta Ada, Augusta Ada Lovelace, Ada Lovelace, Ada King, or just Ada.
==What did Ada's Bernoulli program look like?==
==What did Ada's Bernoulli program look like?==
V11 = V12 / V2; // Get (1/2) * (2N-1)/(2N+1).
V11 = V12 / V2; // Get (1/2) * (2N-1)/(2N+1).
(She used the old-fashioned multiply and divide signs "<math>\times</math>" and "<math>\div</math>"; she didn't know any better. Neither the 026 keypunch nor the ASCII character set had been invented.)
(She used the old-fashioned multiply and divide signs "<math>\times</math>" and "<math>\div</math>". These seem quaint by today's standards, but they were the symbols that people used at the time. Neither the 026 keypunch nor the ASCII character set had been invented.)
She used two loops—see the other sidebar on page 78. V10 is the outer loop counter. The loop consists of instructions 13 to 23. It continues until V10 counts down to 1.
She used two loops—see the other sidebar on page 78. V10 is the outer loop counter. The loop consists of instructions 13 to 23. It continues until V10 counts down to 1.