Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A logical operator that returns a true value if one, but not both, of its operands is true.
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- noun logic The
connective "exclusive or". - noun electrical engineering A
logic gate that implements "exclusive or". - noun programming The symbolic representation that implements "exclusive or".
- verb transitive, computing To perform the XOR function upon.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Here we go, the first major TV show tonight is CW's "Reaper", released by XOR, which is a little messed up lately. 720p is OUT!
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The way I view this is not "XOR" logic, as it could be BOTH.
Slashdot: Science 2009
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Xor: img, img → img: returns the pixel-by-pixel XOR of two images
Genetic programming in the cloud « The Half-Baked Maker 2010
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Change the OR input to be XOR whenever F2 is reset.
Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill: Part 1 « The Half-Baked Maker 2009
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By adding another function bit to bitwise negate A as well, we can include all possible (non-identity) bitwise operations (NOT, AND, OR, NAND, NOR, XOR, XNOR).
Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill: Part 1 « The Half-Baked Maker 2009
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The multiplexer has three function bits, and so chooses between eight inputs: previous bit of A, sum, AND, OR, XOR, A, B, or next bit of A.
Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill: Part 1 « The Half-Baked Maker 2009
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These multiple time lines generated by the brain are compared to one another with simple logic gates (XOR NOR OR AND NAND, etc.) to determine the best fit for managing and understanding the lower four dimensions.
amuchmoreexotic: I've just finished reading Consciousness amuchmoreexotic 2008
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Is the MediaAccessKey the public key, the fingerprint the private key, and the salt is used to maybe XOR the stream first?
Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives 2006
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The set {0, 1} of bits (binary digits) under the operation XOR, because each bit is its own inverse: 0 XOR 0 = 1 XOR 1 = 0.
Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007
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The set {0, 1} of bits (binary digits) under any of the operations AND, OR, XOR.
Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007
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