At 10:35 AM 4/5/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
I think there is some confusionin this thread between the definitions of
binary, fuzzy, analog and digital.


Binary/Fuzzy:

The characteristic function of a binary set has two states - True/False, 0/1,...

The same in fuzzy logic has an infinate number of states, normally defined
in the range [0,1].




A digital system is usually defined in discrete steps of a power of 2 (binary)

An analog system has infinite resolution.



You can have a crisp(classical logic) analog or digital system and you can
have a digital or analog
fuzzy system.  In fact, most of the fuzzy logic systems are digital.

The logic system you use to develop your system is independent of the
implementation.



A full discussion here would go on for pages but I hope this gets some grey
cells moving.



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