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Re: AND gate brick?
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lugnet.robotics
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Date:
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Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:13:30 GMT
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Barbara Nostrand <nostrand@bradley.edu(spamless)>
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Hi Andy.
Your drawing works just fine for ONE gate. Now imagine a 135 x 44 piece
of paper covered with 50 or more of the things. Folks didn't come up with
the special symbols in order to make things harder. Imagine trying to do
arithmetic if you wrote things out as follows:
one thousand twenty four
times four
equals four thousand ninety six
Isn't
2024
x 4
----
4096
A LOT easier? They both say the same thing and the first one has the
advantage of using familiar English words. The same thing applies to
using English words for Logic devices. The English words start out
being more familiar, but wind up being more cumbersome.
Barbara Nostrand
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 | | Re: AND gate brick?
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| Hi Andy. The reason for symbols for AND or NAND or whatever is because those are what are used when you draw circuit diagrams. Essentially, the idea is pedagogical. Once you are familiar with them, the tradiitional AND, NAND, NOR, XOR, &c. symbols (...) (25 years ago, 24-Dec-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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