beenthere -
I was in the process of editing the last post when you closed the previous thread to actually involve an agreement to the concept that no single gate compares... I prematurely posted the message beforehand. Sorry about that...
It is an absolute fact that no single gate compares 2 inputs to "determine" which one is greater, equal or less. To anyone confused due to my previous posting, the reason it is true that no comparison is being made is because the gate does not determine WHICH of the inputs has "something" on it vs. "nothing" on it: It only "favors" "something" over "nothing" due to being physically set up that way to function predictably. In fact, I don't think you can use "favors" -- I'm not sure which term can be used to describe it without ascribing decision-making or volitional capacity to the thing. Even the term "evaluates" is a little bizarre to me.
The real question now I'm trying to figure out is how comparison, which seems to be the fulcrum of "decision-making" capacity *IS* capable of being carried out by *multiple* gates, such as seen in that comparator chip. This seems very strange to me that logic condition evaluation can effect quantity comparison.
But that's for another forum perhaps -- unless someone feels like talking about it.
Thanks.
j
I was in the process of editing the last post when you closed the previous thread to actually involve an agreement to the concept that no single gate compares... I prematurely posted the message beforehand. Sorry about that...
It is an absolute fact that no single gate compares 2 inputs to "determine" which one is greater, equal or less. To anyone confused due to my previous posting, the reason it is true that no comparison is being made is because the gate does not determine WHICH of the inputs has "something" on it vs. "nothing" on it: It only "favors" "something" over "nothing" due to being physically set up that way to function predictably. In fact, I don't think you can use "favors" -- I'm not sure which term can be used to describe it without ascribing decision-making or volitional capacity to the thing. Even the term "evaluates" is a little bizarre to me.
The real question now I'm trying to figure out is how comparison, which seems to be the fulcrum of "decision-making" capacity *IS* capable of being carried out by *multiple* gates, such as seen in that comparator chip. This seems very strange to me that logic condition evaluation can effect quantity comparison.
But that's for another forum perhaps -- unless someone feels like talking about it.
Thanks.
j
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