Stainless Steel Rat wrote:
> <<<snip>>> Am I missing something in the
> | traditional definitions of analog and digital?
>
> Yes, you are. The *patterns* of light reflecting off of the pits in a CD
> are analog, even though the *signal* those patterns represent are digital.
> <<<snip>>>
What are they analogs of? A medium is analog if its trace on a medium is a physical
analog of the source material instead of a mathematical coding of that material.
The patterns of light are not analogous representations of the source material.
jsl
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