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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Gregory Chaitin define random numbers?
(a) As numbers that could not be identified.
(b) As numbers that could not be calculated.
(c) As numbers that could not be computed.
(d) As numbers that could not be defined.

2. What comment did IBM researcher Charles Bennet make about the amount of information in a message?
(a) Is not a good measurement of its capacity.
(b) Is not a good measure of its ability for computation.
(c) Is not a good measurement of its meaningfulness.
(d) Is not a good measurement of its importance.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Norbert Weiner developed a theory that had implications for the understanding of what system of the human body which might be thought of as a system of switches and signals.

4. What machine was constructed by Charles Babbage?

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

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