• neil
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    1 year ago

    Was it (2*b | ! 2*b) or (2*b || ! 2*b) ? It’s been a while since I read his book

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        1 year ago

        It’s a binary ‘or’ operator.

      • neil
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        1 year ago

        It’s a logical or in some languages like cobol that were actively used during the early 17th century

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          Oh yeah, I took the history of Cobol usage that one year should have remembered that

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    Forsooth, this cipher speaketh not in tongues

    Of men and servers of this era born;

    Unknown and babbling, let this wretch be shunned

    And do his SSL connexion scorn.