Talk:2497: Logic Gates
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. 141.101.99.119 00:08, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
(Also, surprised there was no direct "GONDOR" reference. Or maybe that's because it was too obvious?) 141.101.99.211 00:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- I was also missing a "GONDOR" reference, and all the X's also made me think XEHANORT. 172.70.126.174 03:49, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Never mind GONDOR, surely "The black GATES of MORDOR" should feature heavily? 11:45, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
...So, who's ready to draw up some truth tables? 172.70.126.211 01:22, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
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... BunsenH (talk) 04:11, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
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 op-amp. Given the subtraction that an op-amp does, the xand gort's truth table probably resembles that of the "implies" operator. Tepples (talk) 04:23, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
the "NORG XORT" is not equivalent to an XOR, as the symbol is round on the right. --141.101.69.186 06:39, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
Right, "NORG XORT" 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 "NORG XORT" then be equivalent to a XOR ? 162.158.129.43 15:12, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- 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 >2-input AND that is only true if exactly 2 inputs are true. I wonder what qubit gates are like. 108.162.219.174 16:16, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Logic Gates
It seems to me that their ought to be 16 possible logic gates. Although some would ignore one or both inputs. Algr (talk) 07:18, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- Yes. The 74181 4-bit arithmetic logic chip implements all 16 possible binary logic operations. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181 162.158.94.253 07:34, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- It doesn't say the names of the various gates. On my list I made up a few, like "Only B" that only returns true if B is true and A isn't. Are their real names for this? Algr (talk) 18:57, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- I could suggest "Unless" (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 && B' would be easier to grasp by those already handling logic statements, I think. 141.101.76.78 19:24, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_function#Table_of_binary_truth_functions --162.158.126.135 23:02, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- It doesn't say the names of the various gates. On my list I made up a few, like "Only B" that only returns true if B is true and A isn't. Are their real names for this? Algr (talk) 18:57, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
- As Randall drew gates with two outputs, these would have 256 (16^2) possible functions 162.158.94.252 15:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
there should be a category of comics where it starts out like a normal list and gets weirder and weirder like Trig Identities 172.70.34.164 18:53, 3 August 2021 (UTC)Bumpf
What, no IMPLIES gate? I actually used this once to implement a NOT operation in a database see search. Joem5636 (talk) 11:00, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- Yeah, neither IMPLY nor NIMPLY, the only asymmetric gates where the inputs can't be arbitrarily swapped. IMPLY: 0,0->1; 0,1->1; 1,0->0, 1,1->1; NIMPLY 0,0->0; 0,1->0; 1,0->1, 1,1->0 162.158.91.2 15:25, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
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. 172.70.130.108 11:11, 4 August 2021 (UTC) 108.162.216.239 11:13, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
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 :-/ 172.70.110.44 22:57, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
- You need a better keyboard. :-) BunsenH (talk) 23:35, 4 August 2021 (UTC)
Is it just me, or did the first four gates sound Seussy to someone else? "AND gate, OR gate, NOT gate, NOR gate." GreatWyrmGold (talk) 04:10, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
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 though 172.68.65.221 01:39, 13 August 2021 (UTC)Bumpf
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