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Truly amamzing man!

I was actually wondering about the electrical symbols for logic gates, such as AND, OR, NOR, XOR, NOT, etc. I would hope they were universally accepted by now and would help when writing books or describing logic. A quick Duck Duck search revealed nothing...?




Electrical symbols in general don't do so well when scaled down to the size of text. Plus, it is very uncommon to encounter the electrical gate symbols inline with text - usually the symbols are sitting in a separate circuit diagram.

Nevertheless, Unicode does have all of the logical symbols from mathematics, which are pretty commonly understood:

    ∧∨¬⊕


Before Unicode made it so, when was there a need for an ice cream or a poo inline with the text? It's a way of expressing language.


Do you mean in Unicode or in general?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate#Symbols


Unicode? Of course they are well defined generally.




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