SIGNAL (Binary) 2)
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A signal emitted by a device that can produce only two significant states.
Binary signals serve to modelize binary relations, whose algebra was constructed by G. BOOLE in 1854 (1952).
The most obvious example is 0 and 1, both signals easily produced electronically, which correspond to any kind of dual oppositions: yes – no; positive – negative; false – true; existent – non existent; etc…
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).
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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (2020). Title of the entry. In Charles François (Ed.), International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics (2). Retrieved from www.systemspedia.org/[full/url]
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