Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 1999 21:19 Subject: Re: [Leica] paperless??? Now: OFF TOPIC: analog vs digital > You are talking about the equivalent of a FAX of the > dead sea scrolls. Or a JPG copy. I am talking about > the underlying meaning of the scrolls. The underlying meaning cannot be encoded at all in any form, analog or digital. > Is the page of the telephone book digital? Absolutely. > I don't think so. It is an excellent example of digital representation. Try resetting that same page of the telephone book in a different font. If it were an analog representation, doing this would change all the names and telephone numbers, at least slightly. However, since it is a digital representation, none of the information changes. > I don't understand your reference to cryptology. Cryptography is information theory at its finest. If you study cryptography, you discover why the telephone book is a digital representation of information. -- Anthony