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This test is comprised of random things in computer science (and some math).
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Last updated: April 12, 2014
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Along with union and concatenation, the third operation used to describe regular languages.
Kleene Star
What does UDP stand for?
User Datagram Protocol
The idea in object-oriented programming that different kinds of object types can been seen as the same through a common interface.
Polymorphism
A common search algorithm that uses a heuristic function.
A star
A structure used in functional programming, and more specifically, in Haskell, which describes a sequential chain of operations.
Monad
Greek letter used as a name for anonymous functions.
Lambda
The class of languages decided by Turing machines.
Computable Languages
The designer of the first Difference Engine.
Charles Babbage
Pseudo-random number generators require a number with which to start generating sequences of pseudo-random numbers. What is the name for this?
the seed
The name of the sorting algorithm that sorts a list by splitting it into two smaller lists and recursively sorting both of them.
mergesort
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As opposed to sequential execution, a program running with multiple threads executes in
parallel
A structure that stores data so as to serve future requests faster.
Cache
A probabilistic test used to test primality of numbers.
Miller-Rabin test.
Java keyword to describe a variable whose value, once set, cannot be changed.
final
The core of an operating system, providing access to the hardware elements of a computer via system calls.
kernel
Name of the function implements as :: in ML, : in Haskell.
cons
Creating two functions with the same name, but with different parameters is called?
overloading
The name of one of the c functions to dynamically allocate memory
malloc or calloc
In 3D computer graphics, affine transformations are described with a n by n matrix. What is n?
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A graph with no cycles is called?
tree
Attempting to model a continuous function or set of values using a discrete set of values is known as?
interpolation
In the C++ standard library, the list type is an implementation of what kind of list?
linked list
How many bridges are the in Konigsberg?
7
The data structure which is a tree that ensures parents are always greater than children is called?
heap
What is the name for | in the Unix shell?
pipe
The object used to communicate between different processes on different hosts.
socket
The name for what the & operator accomplishes in C/C++.
de-referencing
The Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula computes pi in what base?
16
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