February 25, 2015 Chapter 4. To Throw the Powers of Thought into Wheel-Work
\n\u2026ne winter she grew obsessed with a fashionable puzzle known as Solitaire, the Rubik\u2019s Cube of its day. Thirty-two pegs were arranged on a board with thirty-three holes, and the rules were simple: Any peg may jump over another immediately adjacent, and the peg jumped over is removed, until no more jumps are possible. The object is to finish with only one peg remaining. \u201cPeople may try thousands of times, and not succeed in this,\u201d she wrote Babbage excitedly.<\/p>\n
I have done it by trying & observation & can now do it at any time, but I want to know if the problem admits of being put into a mathematical Formula, & solved in this manner.\u2026 There must be a definite principle, a compound I imagine of numerical & geometrical properties, on which the solution depends, & which can be put into symbolic language.♦<\/p>\n
A formal solution to a game\u2014the very idea of such a thing was original. The desire to create a language of symbols, in which the solution could be encoded\u2014this way of thinking was Babbage\u2019s, as she well knew.<\/p>\n
All Excerpts From<\/p>\n
Gleick, James. \u201cThe Information.\u201d Pantheon, 2011-02-28T15:00:00+00:00. iBooks.
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