Babbage's Miraculous Computation Revisited

L March
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L March: Department of Design, School of the Arts and Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA

Environment and Planning B, 1996, vol. 23, issue 3, 369-376

Abstract: Charles Babbage used an example suggested by the computational power of his calculating engine to suggest that ‘miraculous events’ might be as lawful as the regularities presumed by ‘vast inductions’. In this paper I revisit the issue by employing a simple shape grammatical example. Induction and emergence are contrasted.

Date: 1996
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DOI: 10.1068/b230369

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