What common term for a software error was popularized after a physical insect was found inside the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947?
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Bug
While Grace Hopper's team famously taped a moth into their logbook, the term 'bug' had been used by engineers like Thomas Edison decades earlier to describe technical flaws.
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