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  2. Analog computer - Wikipedia

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    An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) that uses physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities behaving according to the mathematical principles in question (analog signals) to model the problem being solved.

  3. Analog device - Wikipedia

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    An analog computer is a form of computer that uses electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic phenomena to model the problem being solved. More generally an analog computer uses one kind of physical quantity to represent the behavior of another physical system, or mathematical function. Modeling a real physical system in a computer is called simulation.

  4. Hybrid computer - Wikipedia

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    Polish hybrid computer WAT 1001. Hybrid computers are computers that exhibit features of analog computers and digital computers.The digital component normally serves as the controller and provides logical and numerical operations, while the analog component often serves as a solver of differential equations and other mathematically complex problems.

  5. Unconventional computing - Wikipedia

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    An analog computer is a type of computer that uses analog signals, which are continuous physical quantities, to model and solve problems. These signals can be electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic in nature. Analog computers were widely used in scientific and industrial applications, and were often faster than digital computers at the time.

  6. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or (historically) a simulation such as an analog computer or a slide rule.

  7. Analog - Wikipedia

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    Analog (program), a computer program that analyzes log files from web servers; Analogical models, a method of representing a phenomenon of the world by another, more understandable or analyzable system; Functional analog (chemistry), a compound with similar properties; Structural analog, a compound with an altered chemical structure

  8. Analogue electronics - Wikipedia

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    Analogue electronics (American English: analog electronics) are electronic systems with a continuously variable signal, in contrast to digital electronics where signals usually take only two levels. The term analogue describes the proportional relationship between a signal and a voltage or current that represents the signal.

  9. General purpose analog computer - Wikipedia

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    The general purpose analog computer (GPAC) is a mathematical model of analog computers first introduced in 1941 by Claude Shannon. [1] This model consists of circuits where several basic units are interconnected in order to compute some function. The GPAC can be implemented in practice through the use of mechanical devices or analog electronics.