[Coco] replicating bitwise operators in BASIC

[Brett Gordon]

Ok.. i'll one-up you all:  you can do it all with either NAND or XOR.
Although things get pretty hideous (but possible) to do either in the other!

cheers,  brett
On Sep 9, 2016 8:15 AM, "Dave Philipsen" <dave at davebiz.com> wrote:

> Actually the XOR could be constructed out of just AND and NOT.
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> On 9/8/2016 11:09 PM, Barry Nelson wrote:
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>> The operators AND, OR, and NOT work fine.
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>> Example
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>> PRINT 3 AND 2
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>> outputs 2
>> and
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>> PRINT 1 OR 2
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>> outputs 3
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>> The XOR operator can be constructed out of AND, OR, and NOT.
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>> Brett Gordon beretta42 at gmail.com
>>> Thu Sep 8 23:54:22 EDT 2016
>>> BASIC gurus:
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>>> In noodling with Jim's test code for the CoCoNIC, I realized the lack of
>>> bitwise AND, XOR, OR, etc. in coco BASIC.  What's the orthodox way of
>>> replicating these operators that are so customary in other languages?  I
>>> remember loads of head scratching in Lua, which like our BASIC, also
>>> lacks
>>> basic bitwise functions and converts all numbers to floats.
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>>> brett
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