digital

     

A igital system uses discrete (that is, discontinuous) values to represent information for input, processing, transmission, storage, etc. By contrast, non-digital (or analog) systems use a continuous range of values to represent information. Although digital representations are discrete, the information represented can be either discrete, such as numbers, letters or icons, or continuous, such as sounds, images, and other measurements of continuous systems.

Trivia about digital

  • (Mr. Pogue points a handheld projector at a screen.) Micro projectors are tiny, but at short range they give you a nearly cinematic experience; they use the same type of DLP technology that's replacing film in movie theaters; DLP stands for this type of light processing
  • This opposite of analog comes from the Latin for "finger"
  • Electronic circuit signals may be classified as analog or this
  • 1998's "The Last Broadcast" was the 1st film shown theatrically using this type of distribution & projection
  • This adjective can mean "relating to fingers" or "relating to numbers"

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