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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the Morse code comprised of?
(a) Short pulses, called dots, and long pulses, called dashes.
(b) Symbols.
(c) Letters.
(d) Numbers.

2. What did the study of thermodynamics not state about the movement of energy?
(a) That it was dynamic.
(b) That it traveled in one direction.
(c) That it traveled in random directions with no pattern.
(d) That it traveled in many directions.

3. What did a young mathematician named Kurt Gödel conclude about conflicting statements?
(a) There were some statements that could neither be proved or disproved.
(b) That Russell had made an error in basic structure of the Principia Mathematica.
(c) There frequency represented only a .001 percent possibility of occurring.
(d) That the Principia Mathematica was flawed and began his own work.

4. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?
(a) The square root.
(b) The logarithm.
(c) Pi.
(d) The base number.

5. What claim did Shannon make about the predictable redundancy of the English language?
(a) That this feature could cause errors.
(b) That this feature could cause programming to be very difficult.
(c) This this feature could not be computed.
(d) That this feature could be computed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Claude Shannon fascinated with?

2. Why is the randomness of numbers difficult to define?

3. Before "A Table Alphabeticall", how were most catalogs and word lists arranged?

4. What is an algorithm?

5. Who first thought of constructing a machine that could calculate logarithms?

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