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But that's only happening in your head. It's an implementation detail of your shell/ide that you are reading numbers in base10.

• pdpi 10y ago
  From the post: "Now, if you find that function dreadful — I am with you. When I first wrote it down, I found it both complicated and unhelpful; after formulating it, my mind was no closer to understanding the kind of pattern the AND function followed, if any." That's what I'm railing against. If your objective is to understand how bitwise-AND works, trying to decipher it directly in base-10 is folly. I'm not a fan of the graphical approach taken by the post either, and prefer the algebraic way out, which is why I proposed an algebraic base-10 (any-base, really) version.
  • forgotpwtomain 10y ago
    But your algebraic arithmetic with max-wise and min-wise characters is not equivalent at all! In fact it's a terrible analogy. Bit-wise arithmetic is great because it's operations are compatible with propositional calculus,- but I cannot see how you can do anything productive with min/max-wise defined AND/OR for base10. For example how to do you determine 324 XOR 310 in your notation?
    • jonsen 10y ago
      In this decimal digit context it would be appropriate to define NOT d = 9 - d Similar to NOT b = 1 - b for binary digits. And in fuzzy logic. Taking the logic identity a XOR b = ( a AND NOT b ) OR ( NOT a AND b ) it would be MAX( MIN( a, NOT( b ) ), MIN( NOT( a ), b ) )
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