What is a Computer?

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What is the primary system that most computers rely on?

  • Ternary system
  • Octal system
  • Binary system (correct)
  • Quaternary system

Who designed the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer?

  • Grace Hopper
  • Ada Lovelace
  • Alan Turing
  • John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, Jr. (correct)

What is one of the more common ways code is used to provide instructions for a computer?

  • Functional programming (correct)
  • Object-oriented programming
  • Imperative programming
  • Declarative programming

What type of tasks can the most powerful computers perform?

<p>Simulating nuclear weapon experiments and predicting climate change (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which programming languages are mentioned in the text as popular modern languages?

<p>JavaScript and Python (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of quantum computers?

<p>Handling a large number of calculations through quantum parallelism (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the impact of computer artificial intelligence (AI) on society as mentioned in the passage?

<p>Improves the quality of everyday life and makes life simpler, safer, and more efficient (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some arguments against computer artificial intelligence (AI) mentioned in the passage?

<p>Leads to greater unemployment and poses dangerous privacy risks (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has extended the range and accuracy of weather forecasting?

<p>The capacity of computers to handle large amounts of data (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some limitations of computers mentioned in the passage?

<p>Undecidable propositions whose truth cannot be determined within a given set of rules (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary function of quantum computers?

<p>Processing data through quantum parallelism (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the impact of computer artificial intelligence (AI) on society as mentioned in the passage?

<p>AI improves the quality of everyday life by doing routine and complicated tasks better than humans (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What are some limitations of computers mentioned in the passage?

<p>The halting problem and undecidable propositions (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What has extended the range and accuracy of weather forecasting?

<p>The capacity of computers to handle large amounts of data (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary system that most computers rely on?

<p>General-purpose information processing (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the primary system that most computers rely on?

<p>Binary system (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who are credited with designing the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer?

<p>John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and their colleagues (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one of the more common ways code is used to provide instructions for a computer?

<p>Functional programming (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the impact of computer artificial intelligence (AI) on society as mentioned in the passage?

<p>Both positive and negative impacts (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of tasks can the most powerful computers perform?

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