Typographical Errors and Hints

The Sketch of the Analytical Enigine.. uses some typgraphical conventions not common today, and there are a few apparent typographical errors.

It is available as a facsimile unter archive.org (processed version removing the background: menabrea_lovelace1843_analyticalengine.pdf) and has been typeset anew in several places, e.g. in Charles Babbage and his CALCULATING ENGINES, edited by Philip and Emily Morrison, Dover Publications 1961, The Works of Charles Babbage, edited by Martin Campbell-Kelly, Vol. 3, London 1989, and online at http://fourmilab.ch/babbage/sketch.html. Follows a list of typographic errors which are not generally all corrected (pagenumbers refer to the original publication):

Note that in line 25 in the result column and in the next one right to the equals sign should read 2V3 instead of 1V3; however AAL argued that the upper index is correct, as this value is for the next round of calculations, and thus must have the upper index 1 for a starting value.

Note also that instead of nested parenthesis, parts of equations are overbarred, e.g. (4.) on page 716.

Martin Campbell-Kelley's edition corrects all, but not the wrong division in operation 4 of the table for the calculation of Bernoulli's numbers, although having used a simulation as well as Petrenko, refering to Tee's review, as of the footnote on p.159. Probably both corrected the error during testing, and missed a note on this.