eolas/Hardware/Logic_Gates/Xor_gate.md

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XOR gate

XOR stands for exclusive or, also known as exclusive conjunction. This means it can only be true if one of its propositions are true . If both are true this doesn't exclude one of the propositions so the overall statement has to be false . This is the only change in the truth conditions from OR .

p    q   p xv q
_    _   ________

t    t     f      (1)
t    f     t      (2)
f    t     t      (3)
f    f     f      (4)