EOR
So today Marilia was telling me about her Digital Circuit class, that her teacher asked them to design the circuit to display a 7-led digit:
“So, for instance, for this one I use an AND gate for the first and third bit, and a EOR gate for…”
“EOR gate?”
“Exclusive OR”
…
This was actually the first time I had ever heard that XOR could also be called EOR. I was sceptical for a while; in her book it was indeed written EOR. Wikipedia also confirmed it, in the opening paragraph of the XOR page, that it can also be called EOR. Googlefight gives 5.000.000 hits for XOR, and 1.000.000 hits for EOR.
Living and learning, I guess.
May 12th, 2007 at 1:46 am
Interesting… didn’t know about that possibility. But I’ll keep calling XOR gates XOR nevertheless. E just reminds me too much of AND (Portuguese influence).