I was going to reply - that his skepticism was quite right about
Wikipedia's claim that it was XOR gates. You can build anything from
enough NAND gates, including an XOR gate. But XOR gates can't be used to
make AND and OR, so they can't be used as a starting building block.
I was going to reply - that his skepticism was quite right
about Wikipedia's claim that it was XOR gates. You can build
anything from enough NAND gates, including an XOR gate. But
XOR gates can't be used to make AND and OR, so they can't be
used as a starting building block.
You can also build anything from NOR gates. Since the NOR is faster than NAND, I find it curious that NAND is used.
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:41:17 -0600, David Schultz wrote:
You can also build anything from NOR gates. Since the NOR is faster than
NAND, I find it curious that NAND is used.
Could the bias be coming just from the notation used? The fact that,
because of the adaptation of traditional mathematical operator precedences
to Boolean algebra, it is easier to write a sum of products than a product
of sums, even though the two formulations are exact duals?
But when I tried to reply to it, my newsreader crashed, and this
thread did not reload. (It got into Google Groups under the wire,
so this is where I found the text.)
On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 17:55:39 -0000 (UTC), Quadibloc <quadibloc@servername.invalid> wrote:
But when I tried to reply to it, my newsreader crashed, and this
thread did not reload. (It got into Google Groups under the wire,
so this is where I found the text.)
While the PAN newsreader eventually did load the message again,
I am quite annoyed that it seems to now frequently crash.
I had used it before, and it had been stable.
So I am returning to what I *know* works. Forte Free Agent 3.3.
John Savard
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