Information technology is predicated on the idea that the material being processed is but an analogue of real-world things.
信息技术基于这样一种认识，所处理的资料仅仅是客观事物的相似物。
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It is important to separate these two factors since equipment could be built making use of the phase information for detection but operating on an analogue basis and vice versa.
区分这两个因素时重要的，因为可建造设备用于不同阶段探测信息并且在模拟基础上也是可操作的，反之亦然。
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Computers can operate on either analogue or digital information.