nand

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English

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noun

Alternative letter-case form of NAND.

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"The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR."

Blend of NOT + AND, by analogy with NOR reinterpreted as NOT + OR or negation + OR

NANDs (plural)

XNAND

AND OR NOR NOT XOR XNOR

AND

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