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What is Analog? What is Digital?



analog info curve

analog: continuous display of the information; it is an analog to the real information.
The process of recording, storing or displaying analog information is in general mechanical.

digital info curve

digital: discrete display of the information: the information is represented by a series of numbers; The value of the numbers can be very close together but there is no intermediate values. It is not continuous.
The process of recording, storing or displaying digital information involves numbers.


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