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Part of the Electronics glossary:

Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes

data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive. Positive is expressed
or represented by the number 1 and non-positive by the number 0. Thus,
data transmitted or stored with digital technology is expressed as a string of
0's and 1's. Each of these state digits is referred to as a bit (and a string of
bits that a computer can address individually as a group is a byte).
Prior to digital technology, electronic transmission was limited
to analog technology, which conveys data as electronic signals of varying
frequency or amplitude that are added to carrier waves of a given frequency.
Broadcast and phone transmission has conventionally used analog
technology.
Digital technology is primarily used with new physical communications
media, such assatellite and fiber optic transmission. A modem is used to
convert the digital information in your computer to analog signals for your
phone line and to convert analog phone signals to digital information for your
computer.
This was last updated in April 2005
Posted by: Margaret Rouse

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