Are analog computers the future? Are quantum computers analog?
Are analog computers the future? Are quantum computers analog?
Wyatt Green
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Evan Morales
yes, here is the evidence, behold the radix economy of base 3:
Aiden Richardson
No. Not necessarily.
Hunter Russell
>Are analog computers the future?
yes to this
>Are quantum computers analog?
No idea but curious about that myself, since it uses multiple/superimposed states it might be considered so.
Ethan Cooper
Analog computers are not the future. They are too noisy and really aren't faster. Plus they aren't universal like regular digital computers are
Easton Jackson
some are and analog does not mean it has to be vacuum tubes does it? optical or magnetic circuits are in development and they could make for a new type of analog transistor... Well I hope that happens at least, would be pretty cool.
Adrian Perry
Samuel Ortiz
What does this have to do with analog computing? I hope you don't think analog means "not binary".
James Mitchell
it means not digital.
tell me what logic besides boolean a digital computer runs nowadays then...
Jaxon Hall
>Are quantum computers analog?
No.
You don't measure a superposition of state, since a superposition isn't an observable, so no they are not analog.
Blake Bennett
>analog
Why are you so afraid of progress ?
Levi Sanchez
Ternary logic is not boolean but it is certainly digital--not analog.
Wyatt Gutierrez
how would an analog computer work?
Dylan Hill
digital and analog are not the terms used to describe logic though. But since we had no way until now to handle analog signals in commercial computers, all of them are considered digital and all compute with boolean logic.
analog computers computed with waveforms rather than discrete values which in my opinion makes them considerable as not binary as well...
The whole terminology is difficult. but digital is a type of signal interpretation whereas analog is direct signal conversion.
Kayden Carter
isn't it the other way around, digital is used to convert continuous analog signals into discrete ones.
Evan Martin
Digital is easier to perform math on.
Analog loses less in transit in theory. In practice optic fiber beats the shit out of any analog transmission in loss even after dac.
Carter Hill
>isn't it the other way around, digital is used to convert continuous analog signals into discrete ones.
yes, I meant what you meant.
the instrument theremin is an example of an analog device because with your hands you influence a electromagnetic field, the changes of which can made to be directly converted to electrically produced sound... problem is that most of the speakers are not analog anymore, so sooner or later your wave will become 0s and 1s.
Henry Hill
Source?
Ethan Johnson
agreed but optic fibre is only used to transport digital signals. how do you define analog transmission?
sadly there are no computers built out of optical cables (yet)
Chase Bennett
>anolog computers
What, are we in the 1940s?
Ryder Stewart
>sadly there are no computers built out of optical cables (yet)
There never will be, cutting edge transistors are like seven silicon atoms wide. In my VLSI class we were designing based on really old specs and the transistors were still narrower than one wavelength of purple light. Theoretically quantum computers could be based on light (if a photon is in one polarized state vs. another, it can represent a qubit) but I don't think that's how it normally goes.
Michael Jenkins
who says future transistors have to be made out of silicon?