1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal McBee.
(b) Royal Computing.
(c) Royal Information Systems.
(d) Royal Mathematics.

2. When was Edward Lorenz born?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1914.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1917.

3. When was Benoit Mandelbrot born?
(a) 1876.
(b) 1924.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1900.

4. Where was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) Frankfort, Kentucky.
(b) Hartford, Connecticut.
(c) Biloxi, Mississippi.
(d) New York, New York.

5. When was Mitchell Feigenbaum born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1949.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is attributed with the following quote in Chapter 4, "A Geometry of Nature": "And yet relation appears, a small relation expanding like the shade of a cloud on sand, a shape on the side of the hill"?

2. If a system is in what state, then the recently observed behavior of the system will continue into the future?

3. Robert May, like many before him, was confused by the changes when what was increased?

4. What is defined as a mess of disorder on all scales and is not stable?

5. When was Robert May born?

(see the answer key)

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