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Toole: a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers is now regarded as the first "computer program."
"Algorithms" for calculating Bernoulli numbers had been known for some time. But she wrote this "algorithm" in the form of ''specifically realizable numerical operations'' that she (naively, Babbage's design was ''far'' beyond what the technology of the day would have provided) believed the analytical engine could have done. And she used the ''specific ability of a calculating device to make control decisions based on the data''.
"Algorithms" for calculating Bernoulli numbers had been known for some time. But she wrote this "algorithm" in the form of ''specifically realizable numerical operations'' that she (naively, Babbage's design was ''far'' beyond what the technology of the day would have provided) believed the analytical engine could have done. And she used the ''specific ability of a calculating device to make control decisions based on the data''.
* Ada suggested to Babbage writing a plan for how the engine might calculate Bernoulli numbers. This plan, is now regarded as the first "computer program." [http://www.well.com/user/adatoole/bio.htm]
==Was Ada really first? Were the Bernoulli notes the first program?==
==Was Ada really first? Were the Bernoulli notes the first program?==