NEETS 13 - Number Systems

What was one of the earliest known calculators that was developed by the Chinese?

Which year did Blaise Pascal invent the first adding machine?

Which system is the value of a number defined not only by the symbol but by the symbol’s position?

What is the power called when it is written above and to the right of the base?

Which digit in a number has the greatest effect on that number?

What is produced when the sum of two or more digits in a vertical column equals or exceeds the base of the number system in use?

What is the simplest possible number system?

What are the series of electrical pulses called that computers and microprocessors both operate on?

Which part of a number system tells you the number of symbols that are used in that system?

What is the number of times a base is multiplied by itself referred to as?

Which symbol represents one, or more, complete objects?

Which type of number is a symbol representing a portion of an object?

Which type of number represents one, or more, complete objects, and some portion of an object?

Which system uses 16 symbols?

What is the division between whole numbers and fractional numbers referred to as when you use any base other than the decimal system?

Which form of counting is where one quantity is added to another?

What is the quantity called to which an addend is added?

What is the number called from which another number is to be subtracted?

What is something used to complete something else called?

How many binary digits is one octal digit the equivalent value of?

What do computer systems use to convert decimal numbers to binary numbers?

Which number is a dividend divided by called?

What is the number called resulting from the division of one number by another?

Which method is the conversion of a decimal number to its base 8 equivalent done?

What is the best method for the conversion of octal numbers to decimal?

Which two purposes was the microprocessor designed for?