From: peter AT MYLASTNAME DOT com (Peter Berbec)
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Subject: Re: [ot] - some basic stuff
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 09:39:03 GMT
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It is rumoured that "Adrian Smith" <Adrian AT atpelectronics DOT connectfree DOT co DOT uk>
wrote, on Wed, 5 Jul 2000 08:50:45 +0100:

>Don't know if this applies to you, but in digital electronics, OR gives a 1
>result for 1 OR 1 wheras  XOR gives a 0 for 1 XOR 1. ??
>
>
>         OR                                  XOR
>
>       0 0 = 0                           0 0 = 0
>       0 1 = 1                           0 1 = 1
>       1 0 = 1                           1 0 = 1
>       1 1 = 1                           1 1 = 0
>
>
[snipped]

Yeah. OR means either true, true, XOR is if different truth values, true. Like
an inverse iff.

Peter