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| | Grace Murray Hopper |
 | | Grace Brewster Murray Hopper was born in New York City on December 9, 1906, to Walter Fletcher Murray and Mary Campbell Horne Murray. |
 | | During her work with Mark II, Hopper was credited with coining the term "bug" in reference to a glitch in the machinery. |
 | | Hopper taught herself how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in octal, a number system with base eight that uses digits 0 through 7, in order to facilitate the process. |
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