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DouglasM6 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Is the use of 'xor' acceptable in written English?

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0 xor? That isn't a word. 0-

— Nona the brit

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0 xor? That isn't a word. 0-
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0I have no idea what 01b01i00xor02i02b00 means in ordinary English. It appears to me to be an in-joke among logicians when used in this way.0-
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0Plug it into One Look, Nona.0-
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0 XOR in ordinary English is as correct as sin, cos, tan, log, sinh...02br
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00Though, in math texts you can find the word "iff" meaning "if and only if". 0-
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0Oh you can tell maths wasn't my thing at school.050010id6
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10It's in the dictionary. (dictionary.com)02br
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20It's in the dictionary. (dictionary.com)12br
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0 Come on, Doug, don't be formal.02br
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00XOR - eXclusive OR. It's not a conjunction, it's the name of logical operator! So, you may freely use it as such.02br
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00We can use XOR to do simple block-based encryption by XORing blocks of initial text with some fixed block of the same length. The latter wil
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0 «Oh you can tell maths wasn't my thing at school.»02br
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00In return we have so nice a grammarian here at forum! 0-
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