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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How many words were contained in "A Table Alphabeticall?"
(a) 2,500.
(b) 100,000.
(c) 22,278.
(d) 50,000.

3. What word book by James Murray was first published in 1879?
(a) Oxford English Dictionary.
(b) The First Language.
(c) A Table Alphabeticall.
(d) The Birth of Writing.

4. Who wrote the work known as the Principia Mathematica?
(a) Edwin Hubble and Isaac Newton.
(b) Aristotle and Epecruis.
(c) Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead.
(d) Galileo and Copernicus.

5. Recognizing a famous painting like the Mona Lisa is attributed to what factor?
(a) Memory.
(b) The meme.
(c) Bits.
(d) Education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What society created the first numeric tables?

2. What did mathematician Gregory Chaitin propose about Shannon's concept of entropy as uncertainty?

3. Who first defined the concept of "bandwith"?

4. What time of memory is most limited?

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

(see the answer key)

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