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From: hamscher@HT.AI.MIT.EDU (Walter Hamscher)
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Subject: The Analog/Digital Distinction
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Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 11:53:06 EST
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   Date: 23 Oct 86 17:20:00 GMT
   From: hp-pcd!orstcs!tgd@hplabs.hp.com  (tgd)

   Here is a rough try at defining the analog vs. digital distinction.

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I don't read all the messages on AiList, so I may have missed
something here: but isn't ``analog vs digital'' the same thing as
``continuous vs discrete''?  Continuous vs discrete, in turn, can be
defined in terms of infinite vs finite partitionability.  It's a
property of the measuring system, not a property of the thing being
measured.