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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What did Alan Turing reduce human thought to?
(a) 0s and 1s.
(b) Its basic elements.
(c) Numbers.
(d) Symbols.

5. The invention of what technology would make Shannon's theory of a computing machine practical?
(a) Circuit.
(b) Grid.
(c) Transistor.
(d) Network.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the drummers of Africa differentiate between similar words?

2. How does heat travel?

3. What does the word "entropy" describe in relationship to thermodynamics?

4. In what manner was "A Table Alphabeticall" arranged?

5. Entropy is the physical equivalent of what state?

(see the answer key)

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