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Bit weird to call it analog while continuous is meant. Any chess on a physical board is analog.
by dtech 4y ago
Bit weird to call it analog while continuous is meant. Any chess on a physical board is analog.
- actinium226 4y agoI know what you mean, but I guess analog electronics are continuous? The author notes at the end of the README that he's an electrical engineer so maybe that's where it's coming from.
- dragontamer 4y agoAnalog is the study of continuous circuits. Digital is the study of (usually) binary circuits. -------- Ex: an OpAmp is called an analog computer sometimes, because you can do things like Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide, exponent, differentiate, or integrate voltages. (ex: 0.543V + 1.1V == 1.643V output). This is troublesome in practice because a bit of noise (ex: +.05V error) propagates. This is in contrast to a digital computer, which encodes data into 0 or 1. There are things like PAM4 which encodes data as 0, 1, 2, or 3 (2-bits per signal), or other such "discrete steps". But the overall concept of "snapping" data to specific voltage levels allows you to fix noise issues.
- RaoulP 4y agoAgreed. But I suppose the creator (an electrical engineering student) thinks of continuous vs. discrete in terms of analog vs. digital signals.
- ehulinsky 4y agoYeah I just forgot the word continuous and never changed the name lol. But my thought process is that an analog clock moves smoothly instead of being restricted to minutes, and analog circuits are continuous.