Analog vs. Digital

What is the difference between analog and digital? What are the benefits of digital?

    The difference between analog and digital that analog uses analog signals, or constantly changing waves, that can be decoded by devices to make sound or for television and digital uses strings of 1s and 0s that represent whether an electrical signal is on or off in order to transmit the information in a definite way. These two work in tandem in the modern day, with digital methods being used for storage, transmissions, and alterations and analog being converted to and from digital, such as in recording and in playing sounds and videos.

    The benefits of digital are that the way that digital information is transmitted is definitive, using strings of ones and zeros that only mean 1 thing respectively, which prevents interference that is common with analog waves. Another benefit is also because of the same reason, the way that the information is stored makes it incredibly easy to copy that information however many times you'd like, something that wouldn't be entirely possible with analog do to generation loss and the degradation of the information the more times it's copied. Relating to interference, the length of the cords you use when using analog matters because of the interference that can be caused by it. However, the length of digital cords don't matter, outside of reaching things, because of the lack of interference.