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Subject: Re: Analog/Digital Distinction
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|I think an earlier candidate hinted at the right idea and then dropped it.  The
|distinction is that a digital signal is discrete -- not so much with respect to
|amplitude as with respect to time.

I don't think time is necessarily relevant. I can give you a picture of
the Mona Lisa or a tape containing digitized luminance and colour
levels of same.

There seem to be various things people are thinking of: circuits,
signals or just representations.

	Ken