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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What process can measure the limits of the human mind?
(a) Knowledge management.
(b) Psychoanalytical evaluation.
(c) Information technology.
(d) Information theory.

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

4. What does the size of the algorithm indicate about the number?
(a) Its complexity.
(b) Its capacity for computation.
(c) Its computable nature.
(d) Its simplicity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Seventeenth numerical tables were set up so that what factor could be learned about each number?

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

3. What caused the errors that were contained in the tables of logarithms that had to be calculated themselves?

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

5. When were computers first unveiled?

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