houghi wrote: >On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 04:04:16PM +0100, pmoellon wrote: > > >>(BTW, houghi, the boolean "or" was a diplomatic "and-and" ;-) >> >> > >Great. A lot of the times I see people looking at solutions in an OR kind >of way. I try to not do this myself and sometimes it works. :-) > >houghi > > You are damn right...
Anyway, the linguistic "OR" is usually interpreted as a boolean "XOR": either one or other. In computing, "OR" means "one, other, or both" - that was the diplomacy to work better all together. Having twice the field for finding solutions is doubling the chances to have one. :-) Patrick
