Re: Data Strct & Algorithm Analysis - Review Anwsers Please

From:
Juha Nieminen <nospam@thanks.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:57:16 GMT
Message-ID:
<wvtRj.295$781.101@read4.inet.fi>
yogi_bear_79 wrote:

A(n) ______ is another way of writing a logarithmic equation.

a. exponetial equation
b. instruction function
c. time complexity (MY CHOICE)
d. linear equation
e. none of the above


  This almost sounds like a trick question to me. I think "a way of
writing a logarithmic equation" is too vague of an expression. I'm not
at all sure what is it really that it's trying to say. (OTOH, I'm not a
native speaker.)

  I'd answer e.

The result of a logarithm is a(n)__________

a. instruction
b. exponent
c. base
d. variable (namely, n) (MY CHOICE)
e. none of the above


  A logarithm is a function taking a real number as parameter (a
floating point number if we are talking about programming) and which
returns the same type of value.

  Yet also this looks almost like a trick question. In theory you could
argue that the logarithm returns an exponent (because, for example,
log10(10^y) = y, which is the "exponent"), but that may be quite
far-fetched. I'd still answer e.

The public section of a class is also referred to as the _______

a. class interface
b. maintenance area
c. data member function
d. class implementation
e. none of the above (MY CHOICE)


  a is the correct answer. (Just a question of terminology.)

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