ENG 1450 Study Guide - Final Guide: Merriam-Webster, Logic Gate, Algebraic Expression

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Chapter 6: the term digital systems encompasses a wide scope, and the fact that most people are not normally exposed to a wide variety of stand alone, digital, systems. At the other end of the digital system spectrum might be something as simple as the led flasher on a bicycle: merriam webster (www. m-w. com): of, relating to, or using calculation by numerical methods or by discrete units. Analogue representation is one where the quantities we are interested in are allowed to take on any of a continuous range of values (a real number. ) Digital representation is one where the quantities we are concerned with take on only discrete values which can be represented by symbols which we call digits: Continuous time time: there are advantages to using digital systems versus analogue systems: digital systems are more accurate and reliable; Digital operations can be programmed for complex systems;