I have tried and errored a reasonable amount of times

Marko Rauhamaa marko at pacujo.net
Fri Sep 5 12:45:56 EDT 2014


Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>:

>>>>> Who uses + for disjunction (∨ OR) and concatenation for
>>>>> conjunction (∧ AND)? That's crazy notation.
>
> AFAIK, that's the standard notation in both CS and EE university
> classes in the US also: + for 'or' and dot or abuttal for 'and'.

Besides, it's no crazier for Boolean algebra than real algebra. For some
reason, mathematicians use + for addition and concatenation for
multiplication...


Marko



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