Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I question the validity of any theory that treats number, letters and stop signs as being fucntionally equivalent since we know by experience that they are different and have different uses. Jonathan Lee - -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:anthony@atkielski.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 11:16 AM To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us Subject: Re: [Leica] paperless??? From: Lee, Jonathan <Jonathan.Lee@hrcc.on.ca> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 14:39 Subject: RE: [Leica] paperless??? > By your reasoning, stop signs are digital, which is > obviously untrue. But stop signs are indeed digital. They certainly aren't physical models of a car stopping, are they? > Digital means symbolic representation in numbers, period, > underline, exclamation point. No, digital means symbolic representation, period. I've been doing this for several decades, I know whereof I speak. In information theory, we do not make distinctions among letters, numbers, and other symbols. -- Anthony