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David Oury will be available in the Numeracy centre on Tuesday 17 June from 3-5
Assignment 5 solutions are available for download.

BE PATIENT - THE QUIZZES ARE LARGE DOCUMENTS AND TAKE TIME TO DOWNLOAD! (approx. 225Kb)

It may take some time for the quiz to appear, especially if you are accessing it from off campus, or over a slow internet connection.

DO NOT repeatedly click "Get the Quiz", as this restarts the download process every time you click, increasing the time you will have to wait. Only if nothing has happened after 3 or 4 minutes, should you click again.

Quizzes require your web browser to have the Acrobat Reader software, version 5.x or later. On Mac OSX, Adobe Reader 7.x or later must be installed. Acrobat can be downloaded for free from Adobe's site. Get the browser plug-in, and follow the instructions provided to install it. Here are some instructions if you need them.

The quizzes can only be opened with Acrobat Reader, not with Acrobat Professional.

If you have technical difficulties with the quizzes using your home computer, then do the quizzes on campus.

Technical difficulty at home does not constitute a reasonable excuse for missing the deadlines. You are advised to start work early.

Mac users:

Use Safari as your web browser, and make sure you have Adobe Reader 6.0 or later installed. You may have to tell the Mac to open PDF documents using Adobe Reader instead of Preview (which is the default).

To do this, find a PDF document on your computer, select it and choose Get Info from the File menu. Then Choose Open with: and locate Adobe Reader (which should be in your Applications folder).

Compulsory Quizzes
Quiz Champions

Compulsory Quizzes

You are required to complete all 9 quizzes by the due dates. You may try as many times as you like, the quiz will be different each time, and your results for each attempt will be recorded.

The quizzes are timed, but your time is only recorded when you get full marks. This timing is not part of your assessment, it is simply for your own information.

To be eligible for a grade greater than PC(49) in MATH237, you must pass all 9 electronic quizzes. Note that only one wrong answer is permitted in quizzes 8 and 9. Students who have not passed the quizzes by the due date may request an extension.

Quiz	Title	Due Date	Questions	Pass Mark
Quiz 1	Congruences and Euclidean Algorithm	Thursday 20 March	8	6
Quiz 2	Logic	Thursday 20 March	12	10
Quiz 3	Sets and Relations	Thursday 3 April	10	8
Quiz 4	Functions	Thursday 3 April	10	8
Quiz 5	Inclusion-Exclusion	Thursday 8 May	10	8
Quiz 6	Regular Languages^*	Thursday 8 May	10	8
Quiz 7	Binomial Theorem	Thursday 22 May	10	8
Quiz 8	Generating Functions	Thursday 22 May	6	5
Quiz 9	Linear Recurrences	Thursday 22 May	6	5

^*In the state tables for Mealey machines in Quiz 6, the column labelled ω has outputs and the column labelled ν has the transitions. In Questions 9 and 10, the Mealey machines accepts a string if they ever output a 1.

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Quiz Champions

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