Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] paperless???
From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@atkielski.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 17:15:37 +0200
 
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