digital computer
noun
: a computer that operates with numbers expressed directly as digits compare analog computer, hybrid computer
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Despite the brain’s complexity, many scientists have essentially treated it as a primitive digital computer.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
Meanwhile, spin waves have wavelengths of around 100 nanometers and offer a different vision for analog computing more aligned to the predominantly electronic world of digital computers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
In fact, its roots stretch back to World War II, with the invention of the first digital computers.
—Zafar Daud, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
Implementing such algorithms on digital computers invariably involves approximation, but theoretical analysis of their limitations is plagued by subtleties stemming from those approximations.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2024
Meanwhile, spin waves have wavelengths of around 100 nanometers and offer a different vision for analog computing more aligned to the predominantly electronic world of digital computers.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2024
In fact, its roots stretch back to World War II, with the invention of the first digital computers.
—Zafar Daud, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2024
Implementing such algorithms on digital computers invariably involves approximation, but theoretical analysis of their limitations is plagued by subtleties stemming from those approximations.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
See all Example Sentences for digital computer
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“Digital computer.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/digital%20computer. Accessed 8 Sep. 2024.
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