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- From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)
- Subject: Re: What does "AND" mean?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.154705.11200@unocal.com>
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- References: <1993Jan21.225423.25301@netcom.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:47:05 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.225423.25301@netcom.com> gperkins@netcom.com (Glen C. Perkins) writes:
- >.7 PRETTY AND .5 NICE = .5 INTERESTED
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- The confusion is over the meaning of AND and OR which are imprecise in colloquial English,
- but precise in computerese. AND means both conditions satisfied, OR means any condition
- satisfied. AND tends to lower membership, OR increase it.
- The example used above is an incorrect translation of colloquial English into computerese
- becuase you meant "either pretty or nice" in English, but used the word AND that can have either
- meaning depending on usage and context.
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