Understanding Digital Signal Processing

• qwertydvorak

  2019-02-28
  First, a bit of trivia. As you know, it is a digital computer, not a digit computer. The information processed is called digital data, not digit data. Why then, is analog-to-digital conversion generally called: digitize and digitization, rather than digitalize and digitalization? The answer is nothing you would expect. When electronics got around to inventing digital techniques, the preferred names had already been snatched up by the medical community nearly a century before. Digitalize and digitalization mean to administer the heart stimulant digitalis.