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There's a fairly simple reason for the superiority of digital computing, which is that error accumulation in analog is impossible to avoid, so the accuracy of r
by lambdatronics 5y ago
There's a fairly simple reason for the superiority of digital computing, which is that error accumulation in analog is impossible to avoid, so the accuracy of results is limited by the quality of the components, which makes them large/expensive and even then maybe only 1% accurate. Programming them is less flexible, too. The applications are pretty niche.
The analog advantage is that you can directly implement differential equations, so they can be more power-efficient and faster than the equivalent digital simulation.
- Schiphol 5y agoThanks for this. I am most interested in mathematical comparisons. That is to say, ways in which optimal analog computation (idealizing away from noise propagation, among other things) might be sometimes better than its digital counterpart. Your last point about diff equations is directly relevant to this.