digital computers
Electronic calculating machines
Digital computers are machines that process information as discrete numerical values—typically binary ones and zeros—rather than continuous quantities.
They perform calculations, store data, and execute programmed instructions.
The term distinguished them from analog computers, which represented data as physical quantities like voltage or rotation.
Today, computer alone almost always means a digital computer.
- logic circuitsComponents performing binary operations
- binary codeTwo-symbol numeral system
- Turing machinesFormal models of computation
- fileStored collection of data
- electronic brainComputing machine, colloquially
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