Computers {analog computer}| can have electronic circuits that use electrical or physical magnitudes, rather than digital codes, to represent numbers and manipulate physical quantities algebraically, rather than digitally.
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Analog computers {integrator computer} {summing integrator} can calculate integrals. Differential analyzers find slope or gradient. Analog computers can sense coincidences, sense anti-coincidences, combine pulses, amplify {summing amplifier}, time, shape, invert pulses {inverter}, invert and amplify {inverter amplifier}, find voltages {coefficient potentiometer}, supply constant voltage {constant-voltage supply}, and amplify selectively {operational amplifier}.
DNA can code combinations {DNA computer}. Filters can look for answer pieces. DNA hybridization indicates solution. DNA performs faster than computers.
Large computers {server, computer} can receive input from many smaller computers {client}.
Bigger computers {mainframe computer}| are faster, have more memory, and have more input/output terminals.
Midsize computers {minicomputer}| can perform most mainframe-computer functions but slower and cheaper, with less memory and less input/output terminals.
Smaller computers {workstation}| can function independently and perform complex and fast calculations.
The smallest computers {microcomputer}| function independently and perform most functions.
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