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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does the word "cybernetics" mean?
(a) The study of the relationship between man and machine.
(b) The same as computer science.
(c) The study of Internet crime.
(d) The study of robotics.

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

4. How was the machine created by Charles Babbage received?
(a) It was very well received in academia.
(b) It received government backing but was not considered practical.
(c) It failed to receive governmental backing.
(d) It was very well received in the mathematics community.

5. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?
(a) Printing errors.
(b) Under-educated workers.
(c) Calculations.
(d) Calculations and printing errors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Shannon bring to one of his meetings?

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

3. What did Chaitin determine about most numbers?

4. What did Chaitin mean by a "computable" number?

5. Why wasn't Shannon able to teach his computer to play a game?

(see the answer key)

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