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In article ,
says...


For example, the written word is a digital representation of information.
There are no "half W's" or "partial A's"; either a symbol is one letter, or
it's another. But the written word is typically actually stored on analog
physical devices, such as books or disk drives. These analog representations
must be resolved unambiguously to discrete values upon entering the digital
realm.


Your understanding of everything digital is completely elementary and grossly
misinformed. The large majority of digital devices do not write to or read
from physical storage devices, but interface directly with other digital
devices.


The print on a page may be blurry, but in order to read it, each
letter
on the page must be unambiguously identified--there are no partial or
intermediate letters.

Even this is a grotesque qnd obvious error. We all read print every day with
errors and ambiguities, and easily correct the missing or misformed text
through context. Digital systems do the same, through delta modulation,
checksums, and several thousand different error detection and correction
algorithims. You haven't read up much on digital in the past few decades have
you? You also have not come to terms with the difference between a bit and a
byte, at the origin of one of your most howling asininities yet published on
these pages!!