Analogue computer | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 14/01/2019

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00:01:57 1 Setup
00:03:14 2 Timeline of analog computers
00:03:24 2.1 Precursors
00:08:33 2.2 Modern era
00:15:03 3 Electronic analog computers
00:20:44 4 Analog–digital hybrids
00:23:49 5 Implementations
00:23:58 5.1 Mechanical analog computers
00:33:11 5.2 Electronic analog computers
00:37:45 6 Components
00:39:45 7 Limitations
00:40:39 8 Decline
00:41:52 9 Resurgence in VLSI technology
00:43:52 10 Practical examples
00:44:57 11 See also



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An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computer that uses the continuously changeable aspects of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities to model the problem being solved. In contrast, digital computers represent varying quantities symbolically, as their numerical values change. As an analog computer does not use discrete values, but rather continuous values, processes cannot be reliably repeated with exact equivalence, as they can with Turing machines. Unlike digital signal processing, analog computers do not suffer from the quantization noise, but are limited by analog noise.
Analog computers were widely used in scientific and industrial applications where digital computers of the time lacked sufficient performance. Analog computers can have a very wide range of complexity. Slide rules and nomograms are the simplest, while naval gunfire control computers and large hybrid digital/analog computers were among the most complicated. Systems for process control and protective relays used analog computation to perform control and protective functions.
The advent of digital computing made simple analog computers obsolete as early as the 1950s and 1960s, although analog computers remained in use in some specific applications, like the flight computer in aircraft, and for teaching control systems in universities. More complex applications, such as synthetic aperture radar, remained the domain of analog computing well into the 1980s, since digital computers were insufficient for the task.