Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Lee, Jonathan" wrote: > > Anthony wrote: > > A digital representation is a symbolic representation of information. An > analog > representation is a representation that uses a physical model of the > information > to be represented. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > > I must say that this is the most misleading and erroneous definition of > digital. Digital and symbolic are not synonymns. Digital is symbolic, but > not all symbolic things are digital. Digital means a symbolic > representaiton of something in NUMBERS. The Dead Sea Scrolls are not a > digital recording because they used WORDS, which are symbols but are not > digits. > > Jonathan Lee I'm out of my league here but I didn't think Digital was numbers instead of words but off's or on's, yes's or no's, dots or dash's, up's or downs: binary. Mark Rabiner