[spectre] request for clarification

[stephen kovats]

hi heath, 

of the very many ways of considering what is digital (and to avoid some of the many disambiguations in our equally ill defined age), one of my personal favs is this snippet from wikipedia: 

A beacon is perhaps the simplest non-electronic digital signal, with just two states (on and off). In particular, smoke signals are one of the oldest examples of a digital signal, where an analog "carrier" (smoke) is modulated with a blanket to generate a digital signal (puffs) that conveys information.

cheers, 

stephen

On 27.08.2012, at 17:32, heath bunting wrote:

> dear spectres
> 
> can someone precisely define the word 'digital' for me please ?
> 
> hope all is well
> 
> heath
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