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Post by Idéfix Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:15 am

A high school level science quiz...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/

I missed 2.
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Post by Guest Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:34 am

panini press wrote:A high school level science quiz...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/

I missed 2.
Sleep

i got 4 wrong less than midway into it. i closed the window.

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Post by Guest Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:35 am

btw, yesterday i was stumped with a question i asked myself while playing a game: how does a computer generate a random number?

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Post by Idéfix Tue Feb 26, 2013 4:54 am

Huzefa Kapasi wrote:btw, yesterday i was stumped with a question i asked myself while playing a game: how does a computer generate a random number?
This is a fascinating question. In one sense, you can never write a program to generate a random number, because your algorithm determines the numbers that you could possibly get, and in that sense the output is not random but pre-programmed. As Wikipedia says:

Several computational methods for random number generation exist, but often fall short of the goal of true randomness — though they may meet, with varying success, some of the statistical tests for randomness intended to measure how unpredictable their results are (that is, to what degree their patterns are discernible).
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Post by Guest Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:13 am

yes, the only true way of generating one would be by connecting the computer to a geiger counter.

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Post by Uppili Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:05 am

panini press wrote:A high school level science quiz...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/

I missed 2.

Enough... I tried 10 questions and made enough errors, I am convinced I should postpone my GED exam to next year.

Thanks PP.

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Post by goodcitizn Tue Feb 26, 2013 10:11 am

Uppili wrote:
panini press wrote:A high school level science quiz...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2011/1209/Are-you-scientifically-literate-Take-our-quiz/

I missed 2.

Enough... I tried 10 questions and made enough errors, I am convinced I should postpone my GED exam to next year.

Thanks PP.

lol!

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Post by MaxEntropy_Man Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:34 pm

i fell asleep after answering twenty or so questions.
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Post by Guest Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:02 am

28 correct, 22 wrong. Made quite a few silly mistakes... but funny how I was transported back to high school and first couple of college years by many questions.

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Post by bw Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:01 am

stopped at "thunder lizard". that's not literacy but trivia.

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Post by Captain Bhankas Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:17 am

attempted 30, got 17 right. got bored, closed the browser.
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Post by Guest Wed Feb 27, 2013 10:18 am

27/50

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