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CODE (Digital)

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Charles François (2004). CODE (Digital), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics, 2(1): 466.
Collection International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics
Year 2004
Vol. (num.) 2(1)
ID 466
Object type Discipline oriented, Methodology or model

A code based on positions in a matrix, expressed in bits.

G. BATESON gives the following examples: “… the telephone exchange is a purely digital computer. It is not fed with magnitudes, but only with names of positions on a matrix”. However, “… Cartesian graphs are analogic” (1973, p.343)

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