Talk:Discrete time

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Discussion

I'm way out of my depth here, but would there be a place on this page (as well as the Continuous time page) for an inclusion of the philosophical thoughts on discrete time? Starting perhaps with Zeno's pre-Socratic 'Achilles and the Tortoise' and the ensuing history toward calculus and on?

vandalism that need to be reverted

I think that the vandalism by 70.107.109.190 need to be reverted.

The relevant revision by 70.107.109.190 can be seen in the between revisions.

--YOSHIYUKI OGAWA (talk) 11:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

The old version wasn't so hot either; I did a fix, so see if you like. Dicklyon (talk) 16:00, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

System clock

One of the fundamental concepts behind discrete time is an implied (actual or hypothetical) system clock. If one wishes one might imagine the current atomic clock to be the de facto system clock. I will add in an appropriate text for this purpose and make reference to Neil Gershenfeld's book "The Nature of Mathematical Modeling", Cambridge University Press, 1999, p.18:

"... digital systems [...] usually are discretized in time (there is a system clock)"

--Михал Орела (talk) 09:41, 23 December 2008 (UTC)