“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
–Charles Babbage, born this date in 1791.
Writing prompt: Write a scene in which two wrongs make a third, bigger wrong for your protagonist.
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