Binary
Moore's Law
Compression
Search Strategies
Inside a Computer
100
A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and digital communications.
What is a bit?
100
Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years
What is the Moore's law?
100
.JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images.
What is .JPEG
100
The binary search is the search that sorts the numbers in the code into order and checks half the code until the search narrows down.
What is binary search?
100
Random Access Memory.
What does RAM stand for?
200
The byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications
What is a byte?
200
Gordon E. Moore proposed the Moore's law
Who proposed the Moore's law?
200
.GIF stands for the Graphics Interchange Format
What does .GIF stand for?
200
Hashing is when the search key is manipulated to indicate exactly where to find the information.
What is hashing?
200
Distributes electrical power to the different components of the computer.
What is power supply?
300
The top number is 255
What is the top number that can be represented by a byte?
300
It was proposed in 1970
When was the law proposed?
300
.BMP stands for Bitmap Image File.
What does .BMP stand for?
300
Search key is the data that a computer is asked to look up.
What is search key?
300
A sound card is one of many computer expansion cards that uses interfaces with software to create sound.
What is the use of a sound card?
400
ASCII is each binary value between 0 and 127 that are given specific number.
What is the ASCII table?
400
A log-linear relationship between device complexity and time
How was the law proposed?
400
.PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics.
What does .PNG stand for?
400
Algorithms are a set of instructions for completing a task in a computer.
What is algorithm
400
The hard drive is the brain of the computer that stores memory.
What is hard drive?
500
Byte prefixes are kilo, mega and giga, as in kilobyte, megabyte and gigabyte.
What are the byte prefixes
500
No
Does the law hold true today?
500
.TIff stands for Tagged Image File Format.
What does .TIFF stand for?
500
Computer programmers usually use a version of hashing to search.
What is the method that computer programmers usually use?
500
The cooling system includes internal fans and a metallic cooling sink which draws the heat away from the cpu.
What are the components of the cooling system in a computer?