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English in Electric Automation Sunny Shen 4 Digital Electronics A Historical Example. “Listen my children and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…”According to Longfellow ’s poem, Paul Revere was sent riding through the New England countryside by a signal from the bell tower of the Old North Church in Boston. “One if by land and two if by sea. That is, one light was to be displayed if the British forces were advancing toward Concord by the road from Boston, and two lights were to be displayed if they were crossing the Mystic River to take an indirect route. 这是一个历史上的例子，“听吧，我的孩子们，你们将会听到/黑夜里保罗·里维尔的马蹄声…”朗费罗的诗歌中描述，保罗·里维尔将根据波士顿老北教堂钟楼的信号骑马越过新英格兰乡间，“一盏灯是陆地，两盏灯是水路”，也就是说，如果英国军队通过陆地从波士顿开往康珂，就用一盏灯表示；如果他们越过神秘河走捷径的话就用两盏灯表示。 Background This is a historical story about the War of Independence of America Relative materials: Road to Revolution.txt Road to Revolution.mp3 The message received by the Patriot was coded in digital form. We would say today that the two “bits” of information were conveyed by the code (strictly speaking, two bits could indicate four possible message and would require distinguishable lights, say one red and one white). The first light signaled that the British were advancing. The second light indicated by what route they were coming. Because only two routes of advance were envisioned, this second bit of information could be interpreted as indicating one of the two routes. 爱国者们收到的信号是数字编码的形式，今天我们将说，是用编码表示两位信息（严格地说，两位可以显示四种可能的信息，并且要求两种不同的灯，比如一盏为红一盏为白）。第一盏灯表示英国人已经出发，第二盏灯表示他们所走的路径。因为只有两条可预见的路线，信息的第二位可以解释为指示两条路径中的一条。 Information can be communicate in digital form if the massage is capable of being defined by a series of yes /no statements. There can be only two states of each variable used in conveying the information. Reducing information to a series of yes/no statements might appear to be a severe limitation on this method, but the method is in fact quite powerful. Numbers can be represented in base 2 and the alphabet by a digital code.