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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 11 2013 @ 12:13 PM EDT |
That's merely a nomenclature thing.
Arithmetic deals with the VALUES themselves.
Mathematics is the abstract manipulation of quantities. The values themselves
don't matter, it's the relationships that matter.
Boolean algebra is merely bitwise arithmetic, And, or, not and exclusive or are
the rules just like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are for
numbers.
Some would argue that binary is just base two arithmetic and they are right.
Bitwise operations informed by boolean logic are not numbers per se, they are
states of true and false. Those states are represented by ones and zeros
because that's how we made the computers work. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, May 13 2013 @ 07:15 AM EDT |
Boolean algebra *is* arithmatic
(given that !0 = TRUE and 0 = FALSE)
a * b = a AND b
a + b = a OR b (or a XOR b, depending on your overflow style)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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