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RE: Am I not understanding?

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In Reply to: RE: Am I not understanding? posted by John Elison on April 30, 2008 at 20:00:23

"Neither of them is infinite; both are finite."
How do you figure? If they are both curvy are they not then infinitely/continuously variable?
My point is that infinity covers more than the concept of now until forever but it also covers fractions of a whole. In this case to truly characterize an analog signal you must sample all infinity moments in time from the beginning of the signal to the end of the signal.
Your fancy digital may fool you but it doesn't fool God.
"My point is that the signal coming out of a CD player is just as "curvy" as the signal from an LP."
Well that's just going to have to be our point then because it's my point too.
Edit: Doh! please forgive me John Elison, I see now that I gave the wrong infinity example for the bit depth subject and I only addressed the sample rate subject with my example. My Example should have gone more like this: Since we are presumably confined to some set of signal level we may record our signal to, say for example -10dBV line level, the number of voltages decimal value possibilities between 0 and max voltage, 0.362Vrms in this case, is infinite.

Edits: 04/30/08

Follow Ups:

some infinitys are bigger than others - OMalley 12:34:51 05/01/08 (2)
- Actually true - Mark Kelly 15:46:25 05/01/08 (1)
  - Philosophy, Yes. Math, No - OMalley 16:39:26 05/01/08 (0)

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