difference between normal numeric control and digital numeric control

[Gary_MavSysInc]

All the NI CLAD review test refer to digital controls and numeric controls.

[RavensFan]

This thread is 9 years old.  I bet many of those review tests haven't been updated in nearly that long.

[altenbach]

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@Gary_MavSysInc wrote:

All the NI CLAD review test refer to digital controls and numeric controls.

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A very short reply to an 9 year old thread probably needs a slightly longer explanation so we can see what you mean.

Are you saying that these terms are used interchangably or that they mean something different? Do you have a link?

[Gary_MavSysInc]

All -meaning all that I have seen anyway

CLAD - Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer

review test ( a written document used to test somenone knowledge in this case for review purposes)

reference digital (Boolean - true/false, ones and zeroes) and

numeric (having to do with numbers) controls as if they are different. Hope I'm not typying too fast.

[Gary_MavSysInc]

Here is one of the sample NI CLAD exams that shows digital and numeric property nodes. This post  is not a question, it is really for the benifit of people like myself doing a little review and trying to figure out some of the LabVIEW idosyncrasies that tend to show up in their test.

[tst]

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@Gary_MavSysInc wrote:

reference digital (Boolean - true/false, ones and zeroes) and

numeric (having to do with numbers) controls as if they are different. Hope I'm not typying too fast.

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While there are contexts in which digital means boolean, this isn't one of them - in all of these questions, digital simply means a numeric control which shows digits. In any case, that's not actually the point of the question. I'm assuming the reason they specified digital in this case is to see if people understand the difference between the different classes, which is why the question has the word "any" (the correct answer is b, because a is too specific [it is technically the same class, but it includes the exact representation] and d is too generic).

[Gary_MavSysInc]

Where would someone go to find a difference between these two classes.

[crossrulz]

Digital Numeric inherits from Numeric.  In other words, Digital Numeric is a more specific type of Numeric.

And here are the online help links to their properties:

Numeric

Digital Numeric