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Analog is more characteristically described as the values between 0 and 1.

Whether the infinite values of voltage between 0.0V and 5V ( infinite as measured by a digital system requiring significant figures represented in floating point math.

Anecdotally, Film photography is not accurately called "analog" as it is not electrical, and does indeed break down to fine grained 1 and 0-like activation of silver halide crystals.



All true, but electrons are also discrete in number...




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