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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?
(a) The computer.
(b) The difference analyzer.
(c) The difference engine.
(d) The calculator.

2. When were computers first unveiled?
(a) After World War II.
(b) At the end of the Eisenhower administration.
(c) Just before the Korean War.
(d) Pre-World War II.

3. What did Chaitin propose using to express a computable number into another form?
(a) By using complex calculations.
(b) By using algebra,
(c) By using advanced calculus.
(d) By using the Turing machine.

4. What game did Shannon plan to teach his computer to play?
(a) Gin rummy.
(b) Chess.
(c) Solitaire.
(d) Monopoly.

5. What did mathematician Gregory Chaitin propose about Shannon's concept of entropy as uncertainty?
(a) That the theory was faulty.
(b) It was related to infinity.
(c) It was related to the dynamism of numbers.
(d) It was related to randomness in numbers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What process can measure the limits of the human mind?

2. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

3. While working on plans for this "analytical engine," Babbage struck an acquaintance with what individual?

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

5. What does the size of the algorithm indicate about the number?

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