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Ada Lovelace

1815 – 1852 · Mathematician

We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

Her own wordsHer Notes on Menabrea's Sketch of the Analytical Engine 1843
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Who she was

Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron. Her mother had her taught mathematics and science, and at seventeen she met the inventor Charles Babbage.

In 1843 she translated an article on his Analytical Engine and added her own notes, three times longer, including a method for the machine to calculate Bernoulli numbers, often called the first computer program. She died of cancer in 1852, aged 36.

Sources: Betty Alexandra Toole, Ada, the Enchantress of Numbers (1992) · Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Ada Lovelace”

In Godsdusk

Ada Lovelace, Myth card
MYTHThe fifth rank. Humans side.ItemAnalytical EngineThe engine's gears and punched cards floating by her hand

Passive · LoopAll allies' actives have 1 round less cooldown (never below 2).

Active · The Engine Remembers · cooldown 4 rounds1 ally gets back all the HP it lost over the last 3 rounds, up to 40% of its max HP.

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