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the analog computers I've played with (homebrew systems from analogmuseum.org/english/exampl) were not digital at all, it was more like plugging modular synthesizers and making curves on an oscilloscope converge

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Seems like word games to me. The theory of these things is not rooted in discrete math, they only become digital when you assume a digital universe.

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eh? How else do you want to root analog computers in discrete math then? You could make an argument about branches being discrete for example, though my experience has been that I didn't use any branches at all really. You'd totally get emerging bifurcations though

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I was using "discrete" as a stand-in for "digital" because I can count only integers (with certain tricks, rationals) on my fingers (digits). Maybe yours can count reals, in which case yeah cool, go ahead call your fuzzy logics digital!

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More interesting would be a way to map an analog computer's bifurcations to such a logic and then showing equivalence, that's an equivalence I'd buy because it'd only have to assume measurement imprecisions. I'd read that.