How to Use digital computer in a Sentence

digital computer

noun

• Is there a bias—or perhaps a fear—against technology and digital computers in the arts?
  — Jed Perl, The New York Review of Books, 1 June 2023
• But now that digital computers are king, why any interest in analog versions?
  — New Atlas, 21 Aug. 2025
• One way to do this is to write down a mathematical model and then solve the equations on a digital computer.
  — Peter Byrne, Quanta Magazine, 22 Jan. 2015
• The air force determined the nation should build a massive radar network tied to digital computers.
  — Marc Wortman, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The combined resources of the most intelligent humans and the most powerful digital computers that could ever be built don’t even come close.
  — Denis Mandich, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
• There’s a lot of room for talking about whether the digital computer itself is the right medium for replicating human intelligence.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 1 May 2025
• However, the politician also expressed frustration that the artillery pieces had not been the fitted with the digital computer systems.
  — Tom Burridge, ABC News, 20 May 2022
• Rockets and other armament are controlled with digital computers.
  — oregonlive.com, 8 June 2019
• All six of the first programmers of America’s first digital computer, Eniac, were women.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2017
• While a digital computer can be in just one of those 2N states, a quantum computer can be in many logical states at once during the computation.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2024
• Buck thought miniature cryotrons could be used to fashion powerful, fast, and energy-efficient digital computers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
• The modern world, with its digital computers and internal combustion engines, is built upon the exploration of numberphiles.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
• Buck worked for the agency’s immediate predecessor on an early digital computer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Feb. 2016
• 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.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 8 Mar. 2018
• If fitted to a howitzer, the digital computer system enables the crew operating the weapon to quickly and accurately pinpoint a target.
  — Tom Burridge, ABC News, 20 May 2022
• 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).
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 25 Sep. 2017
• At the time, Berkeley was establishing himself as a leading author, publisher, and consultant for the new world of digital computers.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2023
• Millions of transistors are now integrated into a chip to create logical circuits, which is the basis of today's digital computers.
  — Kazuhiro Gomi, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024
• The most famous is Shor’s algorithm, which showed that a quantum computer would be able to find prime factors of a large number far faster than is currently possible on a digital computer.
  — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 27 June 2025
• Neurogrid’s noisy processors will not have anything like a digital computer’s rigorous precision.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• By the 1960s, digital computers had largely replaced their analog counterparts.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
• For a digital computer, time is thin, unidimensional, and abstracted away from its thermodynamic arrow.
  — Anil Seth, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• The ruling granted Atanasoff legal recognition as the inventor of the first electronic digital computer.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2026
• These machines solve problems by representing quantities as models — think voltages or mechanical positions — rather than the ones and zeros used in digital computers.
  — Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
• The idea of an automatic digital computer dates back to mathematical prodigy Charles Babbage.
  — Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 4 Nov. 2021
• The mathematical equations that Arthur and others are using to simulate the chip’s behavior and test its blueprint for flaws would quickly bog down a regular digital computer.
  — Douglas Fox, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• Indeed, smart money in Silicon Valley holds that digital computers will be able to replicate and soon exceed anything and everything that humans are capable of.
  — Christof Kochgiulio Tononi, IEEE Spectrum, 25 May 2017
• The steam engine was the progenitor of the first industrial revolution, followed by the invention of electricity and the third was the advent of digital computers.
  — Chuck Brooks, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Turing emphasized the importance of speed and storage in determining the capabilities of a digital computer.
  — Gerui Wang, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024