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Ada Lovelace Day: Meet the 6 women who gave you the 'computer'

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The debate was whether she actually contributed anything or was just a celebrity endorsement.

She was very well connected in the cool consumptive poets circle, which doesn't automatically mean she was an idiot. She did have a decent private education in maths,more than a typical rich girl of the era, but that doesn't automatically mean she was a genius.

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