HELP please

**Lasse Reichstein Nielsen** · Jul 23 '05, 10:55 AM

**Cyberdog** · Jul 23 '05, 10:55 AM

**Evertjan.** · Jul 23 '05, 10:55 AM

Re: HELP please

Cyberdog wrote on 13 mei 2004 in comp.lang.javas cript:
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> I am learning javascript, and at the moment I am working on truth
> tables. Can someone please tell me, is "NOT A AND B" the same as "NOT A
> AND NOT B". Thanks[/color]

[much more basic boolean than javascript]

Not A And B -> false unless A=false and B=true

this is is the same as:

(Not A) And B -> false unless A=false and B=true

and different from:

Not (A and B) -> false only when A and B are true

=============== =============== ======

(Not A) and (Not B) -> false unless both A and B are false

is the same as:

Not (A or B) -> false unless both A and B are false

Nota Bene: when taking the Nots out of the "()" the "and" changes to "or"

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**Lasse Reichstein Nielsen** · Jul 23 '05, 10:56 AM

Re: HELP please

Cyberdog <david.midcom@I NVALID.com> writes:
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> Thanks for that, It would seem that "NOT ( A AND B)" is actually
> equivalent to "(NOT A OR NOT B)"[/color]

It is. That's called de Morgan's law, IIRC. The other way also
holds:
NOT (A OR B) is equivalen to (NOT A) AND (NOT B)

/L
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**Charles Crume** · Jul 23 '05, 10:56 AM

Re: HELP please

Hi Lasse;

But in some computer languages these two statements are NOT the same because
the NOT operator sometimes takes precedence over the AND operator (it's one
level up in the hierarchy) and NOT A AND B is processed as (NOT A) AND B.

However, being fairly new to javascript, I can't seem to find any precedence
guidelines in the books I currently have. I wrote the attached HTML file
which shows (unless I made a mistake in my javascript coding) that these two
statements *are not* the same.

Charles...

"Cyberdog" <david.midcom@I NVALID.com> wrote in message
news:jie7a0liu8 e0vg4r70fftqofn hukqepes1@4ax.c om...[color=blue]
> HI,
> I am learning javascript, and at the moment I am working on truth
> tables. Can someone please tell me, is "NOT A AND B" the same as "NOT A
> AND NOT B". Thanks[/color]

"Lasse Reichstein Nielsen" <lrn@hotpop.com > wrote in message
news:1xloci15.f sf@hotpop.com.. .[color=blue]
> Cyberdog <david.midcom@I NVALID.com> writes:
>[color=green]
> > I am learning javascript, and at the moment I am working on truth
> > tables. Can someone please tell me, is "NOT A AND B" the same as "NOT A
> > AND NOT B".[/color]
>
> What are their truth tables?
>
> A | B | NOT A | NOT B | NOT A AND B | NOT A AND NOT B
> ------+-----+-------+-------+-------------+-----------------
> 1: true |true | false | false | false | false
> 2: true |false| false | true | false | false
> 3: false|true | true | false | true | false
> 4: false|false| true | true | false | true
>
> Remeber that the truth table for AND has true only when both
> operands are true. For NOT A AND B, that happens when both the
> NOT A and the B columns are true, which is row 3. For NOT A AND
> NOT B, both NOT A and NOT B are true in row 4.
>
> Since the two expressions have different truth tables, they are
> not the same.
>
> /L
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<URL:http://www.infimum.dk/HTML/rasterTriangleD OM.html>[color=blue]
> 'Faith without judgement merely degrades the spirit divine.'[/color]

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**Lasse Reichstein Nielsen** · Jul 23 '05, 10:56 AM

Re: HELP please

"Charles Crume" <cc@charlescrum esoftware.com> writes:
[color=blue]
> But in some computer languages these two statements are NOT the same because
> the NOT operator sometimes takes precedence over the AND operator (it's one
> level up in the hierarchy) and NOT A AND B is processed as (NOT A) AND B.[/color]

That is how I read it. Unary operators typically have much higher
precedence than binary operators, so NOT A AND B would be read as
(NOT A) AND B (and that is how Javascript does it too).
[color=blue]
> However, being fairly new to javascript, I can't seem to find any precedence
> guidelines in the books I currently have.[/color]

You can derive the precendence from the grammar of the ECMAScript standard,
but for now, just remember that unary beats binary (and AND beats OR if it
matters). If I'm not mistaken, the precedence of operators in Javascript
is the same as in Java.
[color=blue]
> I wrote the attached HTML file which shows (unless I made a mistake
> in my javascript coding) that these two statements *are not* the
> same.[/color]

I see no attachment (give a link to a page anyway, it's easier to
use). If you used an actual "attachment " (as in MIME encoded), then
it was probably stripped by your news service provider, since this is
not a binary group.

Good luck
/L
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**Charles Crume** · Jul 23 '05, 10:56 AM

Re: HELP please

Hi Lasse;

[snip]
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> You can derive the precendence from the grammar of the ECMAScript standard[/color]

OK, I will check this out when I have some free time.

[color=blue]
> I see no attachment (give a link to a page anyway, it's easier to
> use).[/color]

Attachment in follow up post. Do you see it? (I'll remember to upload to my
site and use a link in the future.)

Charles...

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**Dr John Stockton** · Jul 23 '05, 10:56 AM

Re: HELP please

JRS: In article <NxRoc.8762$sA. 7798@fe2.columb us.rr.com>, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, Charles Crume <cc@charlescrum esoftware.com>
posted at Thu, 13 May 2004 21:13:17 :[color=blue]
>
>However, being fairly new to javascript, I can't seem to find any precedence
>guidelines in the books I currently have.[/color]

They are on mostly Page 10 of the first edition of David Flanagan:
JavaScript Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition. ISBN 0-596-00411-7.

So they are probably in the second edition, and in the Definitive Guide;
see FAQ, 3.1.

<URL:http://www.merlyn.demo n.co.uk/js-logic.htm> may be of interest; it
includes the de Morgan equivalences.

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