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Discover LudwigThe phrase "analog computer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a type of computer that processes data in a continuous form, as opposed to digital computers which use discrete values.
Example: "The research team decided to use an analog computer for their simulations due to its ability to model complex systems more effectively."
Alternatives: "continuous computer" or "analog processing unit".
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analog computer
noun
A computer (mechanical, electrical or other) that processes using continuously varying signals rather than digital, quantized, values.
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In this concept, tens or hundreds of binary actuators are embedded in a structure, which is analogous to the digital computer replacing the analog computer.
One advantage of analog computation is that it may be relatively simple to design and build an analog computer to solve a single problem.
See also analog computer; differential analyzer.
Its 2,000 parts combined an optical device, a gyroscope and an analog computer.
(Atanasoff also claimed to have invented the term analog computer to describe machines such as Vannevar Bush's Differential Analyzer).
In 1930 an engineer named Vannevar Bush at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT) developed the first modern analog computer.
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They're like analog computers.
Analog computers use continuous physical magnitudes to represent quantitative information.
The use of efficient analog computers in the early 1950s led to further improvements.
Most present-day electronic analog computers operate by manipulating potential differences (voltages).
During the 1920s and '30s, he and his research laboratory became the preeminent designers and builders of analog computers.
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