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• xor /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'.
  I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is true....
• munching squares n. A display hack dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T -- see HAKMEM items 146-148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....
• munching squares: n. A {display hack} dating back to the PDP-1 (ca.
  1962, reportedly discovered by Jackson Wright), which employs a trivial computation (repeatedly plotting the graph Y = X XOR T for successive values of T --- see {HAKMEM} items 146--148) to produce an impressive display of moving and growing squares that devour the screen....
• canonical adj. [very common; historically, `according to religious law'] The usual or standard state or manner of something.
  This word has a somewhat more technical meaning in mathematics....
• Mark one of the following: (A) True (B) False
• Theorem: All positive integers are equal. Proof: Sufficient to show that for any two positive integers, A and B, A = B.
  Further, it is sufficient to show that for all N > 0, if A and B (positive integers) satisfy (MAX(A, B) = N) then A = B....
• (You can have your cake) XOR (You can eat your cake)
• An Ode to C: 0x0d2C ~~~~~~ May your signals all trap May your references be bounded All memory aligned Floats to ints rounded.
  And Remember ... Non-zero is true Use -> for a pointer ++ adds one A dot if it's not Arrays start with zero ?...
• for values of: [MIT] A common rhetorical maneuver at MIT is to use any of the canonical {random numbers} as placeholders for variables.
  The max function takes 42 arguments, for arbitrary values of 42....