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a single device can be both AND and XOR. that's weird stuff. I'd say it depends on how you would define "single device". Imagine the possible complexity of suc
by jonsen 13y ago
a single device can be both AND and XOR. that's weird stuff.
I'd say it depends on how you would define "single device". Imagine the possible complexity of such water devices build with a 3D printer and still it's just a lump of uniform material, albeit structured.
- gizmo686 13y agoI think that a distinction can be made here. Consider the device as an XOR gate. There is no element within the device that is not a fundamental part of the XOR system. The AND gate arises as a natural result of constructing the XOR gate. This feels fundamentally different from constructing an XOR gate, and then adding an AND gate. On a meta-level, in writing the above comment, I feel as if we are missing some critical vocabulary that would make this entire question seem trivial. Any ideas on what this vocab. is?