Speed Over Accuracy
SPEED OVER ACCURACY
Digital computers are actually less accurate than the older analog machines because they deal in larger numbers of approximations over the range of a problem while analog computers model reality continuously. However, digital machines are so fast, they have become preferable regardless.
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