Comment on What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?parentComments−epicureanideal8yIs this the first documented instance of finding a bug in a computer program? That should be a more well known milestone in my opinion.−modernerd8yThe author mentions that another blogger, Jim Randell, found the same error in 2015 when translating the tables to Python: https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/tag/bernoulli-numbers/It's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errors. But, yes, it does seem like an interesting milestone−adtac8yIt's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errorsTranscription errors would make this the first bug due to bit rot in a special sense! Still quite remarkable :)−moomin8ygit blame a bit hard in this case.
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Is this the first documented instance of finding a bug in a computer program? That should be a more well known milestone in my opinion.
The author mentions that another blogger, Jim Randell, found the same error in 2015 when translating the tables to Python: https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/tag/bernoulli-numbers/
It's also debated whether these were bugs from Ada or transcription errors. But, yes, it does seem like an interesting milestone
Transcription errors would make this the first bug due to bit rot in a special sense! Still quite remarkable :)
git blame a bit hard in this case.