[spectre] request for clarification

[j]

my own favourite consideration of the digital was ron briefel's exemplar 
with a beer can, a 2-state clicking of 0 and 1, at the end of last years 
Decrystallization salon event which Heath unfortunately missed.....

:-) jjj



> 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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