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- From: gkwan@balboa.eng.uci.edu (Greg Kwan)
- Subject: Re: HDTV Question
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- Date: 11 Jan 93 05:52:30 GMT
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- >Well, first of all an analogue signal doesn't really have an infinite number
- >of divisions if it's represented as a voltage or a current, because they are
- >both quantized. You can't get any unit of charge less than an electron. It's
- >just that the number of divisions is extremely large.
-
- Reminds me of a saying a boss had on his whiteboard (we were the only
- digital guys in an analog company):
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- ``Analog is really digital. It's just that the sampling rate is
- Avogadro's Number.''
-
- [He also had ``E=mc^2 +/- 1 LSB.'']
-
- greg
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