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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through chapters 7-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the name of the computer manufacturing and retail division of Royal Typewriter which made the early computers RPC 4000 and RPC 9000?
(a) Royal McBee.
(b) Royal Computing.
(c) Royal Information Systems.
(d) Royal Mathematics.

2. Where was James Yorke born?
(a) Portland, Oregon.
(b) Flagstaff, Arizona.
(c) Plainfield, New Jersey.
(d) Cheyenne, Wyoming.

3. In his paper, Kuhn argues that rival paradigms are ______, meaning that it is not possible to understand one paradigm through the conceptual framework and terminology of another rival paradigm.
(a) Incorrigible.
(b) Incommensurable.
(c) Incomprehensible.
(d) Indistinguishable.

4. Where was Heinz-Otto Peitgen born?
(a) Johannesburg, South Africa.
(b) Nümbrecht, Germany.
(c) Warsaw, Poland.
(d) Nimbin, Australia.

5. When was Robert May born?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mathematical term refers to a bifurcation in which the system switches to a new behavior with twice the period of the original system in a discrete dynamical system?

2. When was Steven Smale born?

3. What is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications?

4. What can be formed by taking a finite Cartesian product of the Cantor set with itself, making it a Cantor space?

5. What is the atomic number of helium?

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