Definition of digital computer
: a computer that operates with numbers expressed directly as digits — compare analog computer, hybrid computer
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To compute something, the qubits need to be able to perform operations on each other, except the researchers don't plan to create discrete gates like a classical digital computer.
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All six of the first programmers of America’s first digital computer, Eniac, were women.
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There are many ways to build a von Neumann machine—the world’s standard digital computer since World War II.
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In the control booth above the auditorium, digital computer systems run the lights and sound for music and theater productions, said Kevin Holly, technical theater coordinator.
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Central aspects of humanity—sympathy, intuition, creativity, improvisation, artistic and social skills—could be curtailed or even erased by the brain as a result of its attempt to copy the behavior of digital computers.
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Where traditional digital computers are made from bits, each bit representing either a one or a zero, quantum computers are made from some number of qubits (quantum bits).
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First Known Use of digital computer
1946
DIGITAL COMPUTER Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of digital computer for English Language Learners
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: a computer that works with numbers that are represented by the digits 0 and 1
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