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Re: Binary math operations (and, or, etc.)

I believe that by "binary math" Stephen was referring to bitwise operations, as opposed to Boolean operations in the "zero is false" sense.  Many languages have both; for instance in C and derivatives, && is logical AND (in which 1 && 2 == 1 because both 1 and 2 are nonzero and therefore true) while & is bitwise AND (in which 1 & 2 == 0 because 1 and 2 have no 1-bits in common). 

Since these bitwise operations are how math is accomplished in binary, btw, I think calling them "binary math" is perfectly reasonable.


On 6/7/05, Bill Briggs <email@hidden> wrote:
At 9:13 PM -0400 6/7/05, Stephen Jonke wrote:
>Is binary math (meaning OR, XOR, AND, etc) built in to Applescript?

  You can certainly do logical operations in AppleScript (OR, AND,
etc.), but that is not binary math. Binary math would be

  1001
+0110
-----
  1111

for example.

>  Not logical, mathematical.

  I don't know what you mean by this.

  - web
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