Exploring Mathematics Final Review Flashcards
Video images can be compressed by
transmitting only those pixels that are different from the previous one
a quadrilateral with opposite sides parallel and equal in length
rectangle
A whispering gallery has a shape like
ellipse
Base 10 uses the digits 0 through
9
invented logarithms
John Napier
2, 4, 6, 8, 10
even numbers
irrational numbers
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
In 1861, James Clerk Maxwell made a color photograph using
the three colors of red, green, and blue
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
whole numbers
year
earth revolves around the sun once
A pint is a ___ the world around.
pound
What is the main reason to have leap days?
So the calendar will match the seasons or so the calendar year will be the same length as the solar year.
the first part of the name means over or beyond
hyperbola
a polygon with five sides
pentagon
A scruple was a standard of weight for measuring
drugs
built a calculator to help his father, a tax collector
Blaise Pascal
wrote the first computer program
August Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
The study of the properties of whole numbers is called
number theory
The next Fibonacci number after 89 and 144 is ___.
233
The sum of the _______________ of the legs of a right triangle are equal to the _______________ of the hypotenuse.
squares, square
the problem that a computer helped solve was the
the four-color map problem
day
earth rotates on its axis once
NASA’s Climate Orbiter to Mars failed because …
engineers used two different measures of force
