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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Bertrand Russell address conflicting results produced by the Principia Mathematica? the problem of these recursive paradoxes by simply making them against the rules of his formal system.
(a) He made them against the rules.
(b) Russell altered the Principia Mathematica to adjust for conflicting results.
(c) He implemented exceptions into the system.
(d) He ignored them since they were infrequent.

2. Who developed a system of logic that would not have been possible without writing?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Euripedes.

3. What was the Morse code comprised of?
(a) Numbers.
(b) Short pulses, called dots, and long pulses, called dashes.
(c) Letters.
(d) Symbols.

4. A new interest in what pursuit arose following the rise of the telegraph?
(a) Writing.
(b) Cryptography.
(c) The telephone.
(d) Computer Science.

5. What did Chaitin determine about most numbers?
(a) That they are computable.
(b) That they can be compressed to manageable entities.
(c) That they are not computable.
(d) That they have complex alogarithms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of lists did Babbage create about livestock, fabric, letter combinations in various languages and other facts?

2. What about DNA allows it to split and replicate?

3. Why is the belief in God an enduring one?

4. What is the modern meaning of "entropy"? "Entropy was not a kind of energy or an amount of energy," Gleick writes (p. 271). It was instead an abstract measurement of the unavailability of energy.

5. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?

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