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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) It was related to randomness in numbers.
(d) That the theory was faulty.

2. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?
(a) Charles Babbage.
(b) Galileo.
(c) Issac Newton.
(d) John Napier.

3. What was provided in "A Table Alphabeticall"?
(a) Word meanings.
(b) Alphabets of the world.
(c) New words.
(d) The history of alphabets.

4. Where was knowledge stored prior to the written word?
(a) In tribal strongholds.
(b) Word of wise men.
(c) In the mind.
(d) By legend.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is DNA also known as?

2. What was the intent of the Principia Mathematica?

3. How many years ago was the first language established?

4. Schrodinger and others theorized that genes had what role in life?

5. What jobs were created to handle the increasing number of telephone calls?

(see the answer key)

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