Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Jun 3, 2006 15:49
17 yrs ago
German term
gleich
German to English
Tech/Engineering
Computers: Software
logical operators
This is driving me nuts. I'm translating a help text for a simple PLC programming application, and it describes all the various logic elements (Gatter) that can be used to construct control programs. Besides the usual AND, OR, NAND, NOR, etc. there's the GLEICH gate, which has only one input and passes the input to the output unchanged (a sort of NOT NOT gate). I've gotten as far as discovering that GLEICH is one of the two possible types of unary operators (NOT being the other one), but everybody seems to ignore it as trivial.
Is there by any chance an accepted name for this in English? (By the way, NOP won't work here because it's described in the document as a separate type of element).
Is there by any chance an accepted name for this in English? (By the way, NOP won't work here because it's described in the document as a separate type of element).
Proposed translations
(English)
| 3 +1 | identity |
Richard Benham
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| 4 | SAME |
Robert Sleigh
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Proposed translations
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Richard Benham
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identity
As in "identity gate". BTW there are actually four possible functions of one logical input: identity, not, true and false. (The latter two are even more trivial than identity.) In general, if there are n Boolean inputs, there are 2^(2^n) possible Boolean functions. Just thought I'd throw that in.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-06-03 18:04:21 GMT)
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Maybe all caps, as is usual in naming gates.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2006-06-03 18:04:21 GMT)
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Maybe all caps, as is usual in naming gates.
Peer comment(s):
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David Willett
: Well, it certainly googles well, and it does seem to be usually written uncapitalized.
5 hrs
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Thanks, David.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thanks. Good argument as usual. I'll use IDEN, and fortunately a faithful translation of the source allows me to say that 'the output is identical to the input', so the penny should drop nicely. The program in question is for hobbyist use, so I don't have to be too concerned with standard usage (or the absence thereof).
I also toyed with SAME, but IMO it implies comparision and is thus not unary."
16 mins
SAME
"Equal" seems to be used as shorthand for "is" which IMHO does not quite mean the same thing
Peer comment(s):
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Wenjer Leuschel (X)
: The SAME gate is plausible.
13 mins
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| disagree |
David Willett
: SAME, as it used in the references you give, has nothing to do with logic gates and is not a unary operator.
7 hrs
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