Tests of characteristics associated with PUIDs are made in a form or mathematical logic known as a Boolean expression (after George Boole who invented it). A Boolean expression combines ...

A search for data that meets several criteria by using the Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT (see Boolean logic). For example, the request: "Search for all Spanish and French speaking employees who ...

Transistors wired in series and parallel patterns make up "gates," which accept binary input (0 = no pulse; 1 = pulse) and generate binary output. Although AND requires both inputs to be 1 in order to ...

As seen in earlier articles, the only two possible states of information for digital electronics are true and false. Be it an electric current, a numeric datum, or a variable of any kind, the system’s ...

A prefix operator is an operator that is applied to the variable, constant, function, or parenthetic expression that immediately follows it. The plus sign (+) and minus sign (-) can be used as prefix ...

Google has quietly removed the Boolean + operator from its search options–and replaced it with expanded quotation mark functionality. For those who don’t use Boolean search operators, this isn’t a big ...

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