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VArcher at 06:54, 4 October 2020

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	And, of course, I have him trying to make a mechanical build-maker. Deriving a [[build]] for a [[Professional]] can take multiple hours. So, just like he went to attempt to make a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine Difference Engine] to calculate polynomials, he could have tried to make a path optimizer to solve that in minutes. Which, alas, is far more complicated than it looks (it's an optimization problem... and it took the 20th century to tackle those).		And, of course, I have him trying to make a mechanical build-maker. Deriving a [[build]] for a [[Professional]] can take multiple hours. So, just like he went to attempt to make a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine Difference Engine] to calculate polynomials, he could have tried to make a path optimizer to solve that in minutes. Which, alas, is far more complicated than it looks (it's an optimization problem... and it took the 20th century to tackle those).

	If you are looking for the other person usually associated with him, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace Countess Ada Lovelace]... well, she's probably a handful bundle of a 3-year old at the moment. No Babbage and Lovelace adventures in the [[Labyrinth]] ~~for now~~.		If you are looking for the other person usually associated with him, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace Countess Ada Lovelace]... well, she would have been probably a handful bundle of a 3-year old at the moment, and will almost certainly not exist in this altered reality. No Babbage and Lovelace adventures in the [[Labyrinth]].
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VArcher at 09:38, 28 June 2020

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	[[Resilient Spellwrangler]] [[Charles Babbage]] is a [[tier]] 4 [[Professional]].		[[Resilient Spellwrangler]] [[Charles Babbage]] is a [[tier]] 4 [[Professional]] belonging to the [[Labyrinth Studies Archives]]

	A spellcaster and a scholar of high repute, Babbage is regularly consulted despite his young age, both by the British Government<ref>Interlude: Wreckage</ref> and various [[Professional]]s. A leading theoretician on [[Profession]]s, he's an expert on the topic of builds.		A spellcaster and a scholar of high repute, Babbage is regularly consulted despite his young age, both by the British Government<ref>Interlude: Wreckage</ref> and various [[Professional]]s. A leading theoretician on [[Profession]]s, he's an expert on the topic of builds.

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[[Resilient Spellwrangler]] [[Charles Babbage]] is a [[tier]] 4 [[Professional]].

A spellcaster and a scholar of high repute, Babbage is regularly consulted despite his young age, both by the British Government<ref>Interlude: Wreckage</ref> and various [[Professional]]s. A leading theoretician on [[Profession]]s, he's an expert on the topic of builds.

He's trying to design a mechanical build-maker that could - in theory - derive quickly a build path given any [[Professional]] objective, but the problems of recursion causes him difficulties so far.

== Historical Notes ==
Yes. He's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Babbage The Charles Babbage]. No middle name, by the way; there's no recorded middle name on either baptism certificate or obituary. Babbage was a polymath and extremely smart man - assuredly an [[Intelligence]] [[Potential]] of 20.

In this altered history, he almost certainly shortened his studies or even did not attend Cambridge. As any of the bright promising students, he'd have been sent to the [[Great Gates|Great Gate]] to see if he qualified, in an era where [[Professional]] recruitment was hit-and-miss. Once he landed in [[Grailburg]]'s [[Plaza]], he would have started to explore the rules of the [[Labyrinth]] and spend a lot of time there rather than the college. He's formalized various theories of the [[Professional]] development, although he remains stymied in his theories of [[Plaza]] location ("it looks so random, it must have a rule").

And, of course, I have him trying to make a mechanical build-maker. Deriving a [[build]] for a [[Professional]] can take multiple hours. So, just like he went to attempt to make a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine Difference Engine] to calculate polynomials, he could have tried to make a path optimizer to solve that in minutes. Which, alas, is far more complicated than it looks (it's an optimization problem... and it took the 20th century to tackle those).

If you are looking for the other person usually associated with him, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace Countess Ada Lovelace]... well, she's probably a handful bundle of a 3-year old at the moment. No Babbage and Lovelace adventures in the [[Labyrinth]] for now.
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[[Category:Historical Characters]]