Analog vs. Digital an-a-log, adj. Often analog. Of, relating to, or being a device in which data are represented by variable measurable physical quantities. INFORMATION IS REPRESENTED IN ANALOG FORM BY LETTING THE VALUE OF ONE CONTINUOUS PHYSICAL PROPERTY STAND FOR (BE "ANALOGOUS TO") THE PHYSICAL PROPERTY ONE IS TRYING TO EXPRESS. INFORMATION IS DIGITAL WHEN IT IS ENCODED USING A FINITE SET OF SYMBOLS DIGITS LETTERS DOTS AND DASHES

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This page is part of a section of lecture slides related to " On Being Digital " within the topic "Why Digital?". Other slides within this section and other sections of slides for the topic "Why Digital?" can be accessed using the links below. On Being Digital On English Spelling Being Digital Analog vs. Digital Analog vs. Digital Analog vs. Digital "DIGITAL" DOESN'T REQUIRE DIGITS Why Binary? Alphabet Independence Alphabet Reduction UNIFORM INFORMATION TRANSPORT Digitizing the Non-digital The Physics of Sound A Mathematical Abstraction of Sound Analog Representations of Sound Sound Sampling Digital Sound Advantages and Disadvantages of Digitization Approximation and Under-sampling Sensitivity to Distortion