Which of the Following Is an Important Reason Why the U.S

question 35

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is an important reason why the U.S. adopted computing much earlier than countries such as China and Japan?

• A) Unlike education in China or Japan, education in the U.S. has been historically based on logic and reasoning.
• B) Mathematics, as a subject, was initially developed in the U.S. and China and Japan adopted mathematics much later.
• C) The Chinese and other cultures were reluctant to abandon traditional computing methods, such as abacuses, in favor of modern computing.
• D) The English alphabet is easier to accommodate on the ASCII keyboard than the Chinese or Japanese alphabets.

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