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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Lovelace publish her mathematical arguments anonymously?
(a) She didn't want to appear more intelligent than Babbage.
(b) She wasn't sure her arguments were correct.
(c) She didn't want to embarrass her father.
(d) Women were not expected to engage in scientific or academic efforts.

2. Who devised a way to multiply and divide numbers by adding or subtracting their logarithms?
(a) Thomas Fincke.
(b) John Napier.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Isaac Newton.

3. What were the benefits of the early logarithm tables?
(a) Provided solutions.
(b) Made work easier.
(c) Cut down on errors and allowed for quicker calculations.
(d) Eliminated calculations.

4. What did Chaitin mean by a "computable" number?
(a) A number that can be calculated.
(b) A number that could be expressed in its square root value.
(c) A number that could be expressed in a simpler form.
(d) A number that is not a variable.

5. According to Psychologist George Miller, what type of process takes place in the mind relative to the information it receives?
(a) The rejection of too much information.
(b) The ranking of important to less important information.
(c) The selection of relevant information.
(d) The simplification of information.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. A psychologist named George Miller noticed that people seem to be able to easily remember up to how many items at a time?

4. What did Chaitin propose using to express a computable number into another form?

5. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?

(see the answer key)

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