What historic calculating invention by Herman Hollerith introduced a mechanical pin mechanism that completed electrical circuits when it encountered a hole in a card? MCQ with Answer and Explanation
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What is the binary equivalent of decimal 32?
Correct Answer: Option A
Explanation:
32 in binary is 100000 (2^5).
32 in binary is 100000 (2^5).
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The first electronic digital computer that implemented a separated architecture for computational data and instruction memory, named after its project, was:
Correct Answer: Option D
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EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was designed to use the stored-program concept, succeeding the hardwired ENIAC.
EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was designed to use the stored-program concept, succeeding the hardwired ENIAC.
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Which historical mechanical device featured a grid of sliding beads on wires and was split into a top section ('Heaven') and a bottom section ('Earth')?
Correct Answer: Option C
Explanation:
Traditional Chinese abacuses (Suanpan) feature a structural upper deck ('Heaven') and a lower deck ('Earth') for positional base-5 arithmetic.
Traditional Chinese abacuses (Suanpan) feature a structural upper deck ('Heaven') and a lower deck ('Earth') for positional base-5 arithmetic.
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