MagicManICT wrote:And since "digital" literally means "with digits," I don't think the alphabet is a good digital representation, unless, of course, you're trying to encode something.
While that may be the etymological definition of the word, in actual usage it is taken to mean "with discrete symbols", as opposed to continuous representations of data. :)
Which makes double sense, as there as just as much a mapping from the letters of the alphabet to natural numbers as there is from voltage levels to binary digits. A digit, by any other name, would smell as discrete. :)