Timeline for Are there two widely accepted meanings for digital?
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| Mar 21, 2022 at 11:28 | comment | added | Hilmar | You can define digital for yourself anyway you like, but as long as you are the only one using the word in this way, any communication with other people will be challenging. By your definition a simple mechanical light switch is "digital". If you call this a "digital light switch" you'll end up a with a lot of confusion. Look, language just is this way: Terms get defined more by common use and habit then by logistical consistency. While there are a lot of discussion in the comments, none of them include your specific definition | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 20:22 | comment | added | yaraklis | I'd argue that the broad comment discussion in my question post proves that it's not a simple matter of an opener passage in Wikipedia (which I already searched long before the post). If for anything we define "discrete" we define "two or more possible states", I'd assume that it is plausible to say that a digital system is a system with countable or "finite" (digital) number of states. | |
| Mar 19, 2022 at 13:24 | history | answered | Hilmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |