A distributed database is a collection of several different databases distributed among multiple computers. Discuss why a company would want a distributed database.

Write a method that accepts a string object as an argument and returns the number of words it contains. for instance, if the argument is "four score and seven years ago", the method should return the number 6. demonstrate the method in a program that asks the user to input a string and then passes that string into the method, printing out whatever the method returns.

Show that there is a language a ⚆ {0, 1} â— with the following properties: 1. for all x â a, |x| ≤ 5. 2. no dfa with fewer than 9 states recognizes a. hint: you don’t have to define a explicitly; just show that it has to exist. count the number of languages satisfying (1) and the number of dfas satisfying (2), and argue that there aren’t enough dfas to recognize all those languages. to count the number of languages satisfying (1), think about writing down all the strings of length at most 5, and then to define such a language, you have to make a binary decision for each string about whether to include it in the language or not. how many ways are there to make these choices? to count the number of dfas satisfying (2), consider that a dfa behaves identically even if you rename all the states, so you can assume without loss of generality that any dfa with k states has the state set {q1, q2, . . , qk}. now think about how to count how many ways there are to choose the other four parts of the dfa.

One subtask in the game is to roll the dice. explain why is roll the dice an abstraction.