Claude Shannon's Famous Master's Thesis Made the Case for What

question 65

Multiple Choice

Claude Shannon's famous master's thesis made the case for what?

• A) that genuine computer "creativity" is impossible
• B) that patterns of relay circuits in "off" or "on" positions could be used to represent information in binary code
• C) that computers could potentially be made much smaller by using transistors
• D) that certain kinds of mathematical equations can never be solved by machines

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