What’s the difference between analog and digital?

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I’m pretty sure that that analog signals is just a continuous stream of input versus digital which provides signals at discrete time steps. Why have we shifted from analog to digital for so many things? Wouldn’t a steady stream of information be of better use?

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Really, the answer is ‘computers’. Digital processing of information is much, much, much easier to do in a consistent, reliable, reproducible, controlled, fault-tolerant, noise-resistant manner.

If we could build analog computers as good as digital computers, you may have a point.

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