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As someone has just Transcripted basically almost all the fine detail I had planned to entable in the Explanation, I shall not now create repetition. Though I had a little more description to the NORXONDOR GOGONAX, in particular, to reference bidirectional (antiparallel) diode pairings (e.g. an LED assembly that glows a different hue depending upon the applied current bias) as probable inspiration, and that latched Flip-Flops surely inspired some part of the Frankensteinian gate-types, too. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.119|141.101.99.119]] 00:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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(Also, surprised there was no direct &amp;quot;GONDOR&amp;quot; reference. Or maybe that's because it was ''too'' obvious?) [[Special:Contributions/141.101.99.211|141.101.99.211]] 00:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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: I was also missing a &amp;quot;GONDOR&amp;quot; reference, and all the X's also made me think XEHANORT. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.174|172.70.126.174]] 03:49, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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: Never mind GONDOR, surely &amp;quot;The black GATES of MORDOR&amp;quot; should feature heavily? 11:45, 6 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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...So, who's ready to draw up some truth tables? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.126.211|172.70.126.211]] 01:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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I can't get the lines in the bitwise-operation example to align properly; the first one is indented a tad.  Can someone please fix that? Thanks... [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 04:11, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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The symbol for norx gate (1-input OR, two outputs) I'd read as a noninverting buffer to increase another gate's usable fan-out. Xand gort resembles the symbol for an [[wikipedia:Operational amplifier|op-amp]]. Given the subtraction that an op-amp does, the xand gort's truth table probably resembles that of the [[wikipedia:Material conditional|&amp;quot;implies&amp;quot; operator]]. [[User:Tepples|Tepples]] ([[User talk:Tepples|talk]]) 04:23, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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the &amp;quot;NORG XORT&amp;quot; is not equivalent to an XOR, as the symbol is round on the right. --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.69.186|141.101.69.186]] 06:39, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Right, &amp;quot;NORG XORT&amp;quot; would be a XNAND with inverted inputs, though I don't know what the logic table from a XAND or XNAND gate would look like. If De Morgan applies to XAND/XOR the same way as with AND/OR, would a &amp;quot;NORG XORT&amp;quot; then be equivalent to a XOR ? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.129.43|162.158.129.43]] 15:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: I think it is specifically a hybrid between XOR and NAND.  The left edge is curved like OR, and the right edge curved like AND.  I did spend some time thinking about XAND, though.  One of my ideas was a &amp;gt;2-input AND that is only true if exactly 2 inputs are true.  I wonder what qubit gates are like.  [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.174|108.162.219.174]] 16:16, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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It seems to me that their ought to be 16 possible logic gates.  Although some would ignore one or both inputs.  [[User:Algr|Algr]] ([[User talk:Algr|talk]]) 07:18, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:Yes. The 74181 4-bit arithmetic logic chip implements all 16 possible binary logic operations. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181 [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.253|162.158.94.253]] 07:34, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: It doesn't say the names of the various gates.  On my list I made up a few, like &amp;quot;Only B&amp;quot; that only returns true if B is true and A isn't.  Are their real names for this? [[User:Algr|Algr]] ([[User talk:Algr|talk]]) 18:57, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::: I could suggest &amp;quot;Unless&amp;quot; (as in 'B unless A', or maybe to counterpart 'A unless B' with standard order of operands, 'A disallows B'). Though the partially composite construct '!A &amp;amp;&amp;amp; B' would be easier to grasp by those already handling logic statements, I think. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.78|141.101.76.78]] 19:24, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
::: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_function#Table_of_binary_truth_functions --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.126.135|162.158.126.135]] 23:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:::: So '''&amp;quot;Only B&amp;quot;''' is called '''&amp;quot;Converse nonimplication&amp;quot;'''?!  Maybe I'm the ''only'' logical person. [[User:Algr|Algr]] ([[User talk:Algr|talk]]) 06:30, 4 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:As Randall drew gates with two outputs, these would have 256 (16^2) possible functions [[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.252|162.158.94.252]] 15:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:: That couldn't logically be anything but two logic gates sharing the same input. [[User:Algr|Algr]] ([[User talk:Algr|talk]])&lt;br /&gt;
:When both inputs to the norxondor gorgonax are 0, the output is '''2.''' [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.45|172.70.110.45]] 21:27, 18 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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there should be a category of comics where it starts out like a normal list and gets weirder and weirder like [[2070:_Trig_Identities|Trig Identities]] [[Special:Contributions/172.70.34.164|172.70.34.164]] 18:53, 3 August 2021 (UTC)Bumpf&lt;br /&gt;
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What, no IMPLIES gate? I actually used this once to implement a NOT operation in a database see search. [[User:Joem5636|Joem5636]] ([[User talk:Joem5636|talk]]) 11:00, 4 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
: Yeah, neither IMPLY nor NIMPLY, the only asymmetric gates where the inputs can't be arbitrarily swapped. IMPLY: 0,0-&amp;gt;1; 0,1-&amp;gt;1; 1,0-&amp;gt;0, 1,1-&amp;gt;1; NIMPLY 0,0-&amp;gt;0; 0,1-&amp;gt;0; 1,0-&amp;gt;1, 1,1-&amp;gt;0  [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.2|162.158.91.2]] 15:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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It appears to me that the new gate names are just taken from the letters of the original gate names: NAND, NOR, XOR,and GATE. They're just stuck together in ways that tickled the creator's fancy. OK, tha's already been noted. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.130.108|172.70.130.108]] 11:11, 4 August 2021 (UTC) [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.239|108.162.216.239]] 11:13, 4 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Unlike professional devs, I don't have a multiocular O key on my keyboard, so I verbosely write out __norxondor_gorgonax_bitwise everywhere in my code when writing kernel modules :-/ [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.44|172.70.110.44]] 22:57, 4 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
:You need a [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/S/space-cadet-keyboard.html better keyboard]. :-) [[User:BunsenH|BunsenH]] ([[User talk:BunsenH|talk]]) 23:35, 4 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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Is it just me, or did the first four gates sound Seussy to someone else? &amp;quot;AND gate, OR gate, NOT gate, NOR gate.&amp;quot; [[User:GreatWyrmGold|GreatWyrmGold]] ([[User talk:GreatWyrmGold|talk]]) 04:10, 5 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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there should be a category of comics that start out with obvious/known things and get weirder and weirder like this. the only other one i can think off the top of my head is [[2070:_Trig_Identities|2070: Trig Identities]] though [[Special:Contributions/172.68.65.221|172.68.65.221]] 01:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Bumpf&lt;br /&gt;
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NORG might be a reference to the boss of the same name in Final Fantasy 8&lt;br /&gt;
--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.89.10|162.158.89.10]] 10:22, 21 August 2021 (UTC)&lt;br /&gt;
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== “Stream Norxondor Gorgonax music”? ==&lt;br /&gt;
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Predates comic.&lt;br /&gt;
https://m.soundcloud.com/d3x&lt;br /&gt;
Stream Norxondor Gorgonax music&lt;br /&gt;
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: i don't think it predates the comic, soundcloud allows users to change their displayed name freely; only the profile name (i.e. d3x here) is fixed. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.80|162.158.91.80]] 17:10, 19 November 2021 (UTC)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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