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book/question_authority.tex

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-\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{thesis}
+\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside]{thesis}
 
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 \pagestyle{fancy} \pagenumbering{arabic} \mainmatter
 \vspace*{3in}
 \epigraph{
-  \large{
     Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that
     because the business of [Babbage's Analytical Engine] is to give results in
     numerical notation, the nature of the processes must consequently be
     arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an
     error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if
     they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out
-    its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.}}
+    its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.}
          {Augusta Ada, Countess of Lovelace}
 
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