Questions on the functionality of Mathematica for Boolean computation.

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Conditionals slower than operators?

I want to make my application faster. I tried to replace an If condition with operators. The If condition is ...
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How to rewrite this function to be faster: Find sub-matrixes of boolean board which imply a given boolean pattern

I have Boolean matrix A (called "board") and Boolean matrix B with smaller dimensions (called "pattern"). I am trying to find sub-matrixes C of A such that C has same dimensions as B, and ...
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Defining an Implies operation that works for Boolean matrices

I have two Boolean matrices, that both have dimensions m x n. I want to create a function TableImplies, which would return True ...
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“And” to continue evaluation after “False”

Below, is it possible to print No and have x be 2. That is, I'm looking for an And-like function that looks at all arguments ...
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Sequence and boolean And

I'm trying to figure out if a calculation result it's a valid result. As it return a matrix, I need to test that every element it's a number, so I thought this could work... ...
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Simplify assumes Boolean 1 and 0 in logical expressions

Per this chat discussion and this previous question where I encountered the strange behaviour: ...
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Bit Operations — Force Binary Bit Representation

How to force binary bit representation of a number, so BitNot does yield the 1s-complement? BitNot[n] turns ones into zeros and vice versa in the binary bit representation of n. I was unable so ...
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Bitwise operators - Hamlet for Mathematica

What is the best way to check this famous equation: 0x2b || ~0x2b == 0xff Mathematica doesn't seem to have a handy bitwise negation operator. The best thing I ...
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Convert boolean test function to pattern?

What is a "reverse" to MatchQ? MatchQ converts pattern into boolean function. So how to convert back? Suppose I want to use ...
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Creating a Specific Boolean Function

How can I implement a Boolean function F(A,B) that has outputs that are not specific and, therefore, the truth table output of this two-input function will be (a, b, c, d) -- here the first term ...
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Plotting Fresnel function

I am trying to plot the partial sums and the cesaro means of the function $\sqrt{|x|}$ and for $a_{n}$, I obtained the following code which contains FresnelS. ...
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Regionplot with Boole - with more than dimension number of variables [closed]

I am interested in plotting the 3D region which is the intersection of functions of the form : f1( x, y, z, u) = 0 f2( x, y, z, u) = 0 f3( x, y, z, u) = 0 gmin <= g(u) <= gmax Note that ...
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How to solve the liar problem?

In an island live two kinds of people: liar and truth-teller, the former only tells lies and the latter only tells truth, now there're two men A and B from the island, A said: "B is a truth-teller." B ...
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Implementation of a new Game of Life Rule

I need to implement a new "game of life" in Mathematica: I have three states — black, red and white. Black means go forward, red go back and white take no action. I would like to implement the ...
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Applying And to lists of Booleans

I'd like to take {True,True,False} and {True,False,False} and apply And to get ...
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How to get the boolean value of an inequality involving an InterpolatingFunction?

Here's the code: yan = FunctionInterpolation[x^2, {x, -1, 1}]; FullSimplify[yan[x] > -1, -1 < x < 1] Needless to say, what I expect to see in the output ...
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boolean return value in mathematica

why does the following instruction ok in mathematica, and it returns a boolean value In[398]:= catenary[x, 1, 0, 0] == catenary[-x, 1, 0, 0] Out[398]:= True and ...
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Prenex and Skolem normal forms

In MMA version 7 there was a big advance in logic support ("Boolean computations" is the official name). This was not further developed in version 8.0. So now we have a fairly robust support for ...