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Which of these insects shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the now-common term “computer bug”?

Retry Correct Incorrect In notes she recorded on September 9, 1947, scientist Grace Hopper discovered that a moth had gotten inside her computer and caused a malfunction. As a result, we refer to program errors or glitches as “bugs” today.

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Which of these insects shorted out an early supercomputer and inspired the now-common term “computer bug”?

• Moth
• Japanese beetle
• Fly
• Cockroach