I recall reading somewhere (???) that the term "digital" computer meant
computers that ran in base 10 while "binary" computers were those that ran
in base 2. Evidently it comes from "digit" being a finger and the fact that
we have 10 of them (thus base 10). Somewhere along the line "digital"
became a more generic term.
~joe
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Palardy
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2006 9:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Math Error?
On Jul 28, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Mathieu Langlois wrote:
> Wrong, anything digital uses base 2. It's just the nature of digital,
> there is either electricity or there is not. When you start measuring
> the level of the electricity, you enter the analog world.
Eniac, one of the first digital computers, was actually base 10
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