Rube Goldberg Code

[smercurio_fc]

Our first Rube Goldberg from the LabVIEW Idea Exchange for converting a number to a string of Boolean digits:

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[altenbach]

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smercurio_fc wrote:

Our first Rube Goldberg from the LabVIEW Idea Exchange for converting a number to a string of Boolean digits:

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Link.

[smercurio_fc]

Oops. Sorry about forgetting the link. Thanks, altenbach.

[Jan_HeG]

I just came across this:

How did that happen? 

[Mathan]

Please give the link where you find this. Maybe lot more will be there.

Thanks,

Mathan

[Jan_HeG]

Oh, I can't. I found it in some code I am currently updating for a customer, so it's not from any online source. 

[Coq_Rouge]

Perhaps He/she needed an inverter and had an unused Nand floating around on the diagram. I have used that approach several times in some of my circuits

[Wayne.C]

Coq Rouge is probably right.  This was very common in the days of TTL and CMOS logic logic where you had a board full of individual logic IC's.   You might need an inverter and have an unused NAND gate available.  Waste not, want not.

[Intaris]

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Coq Rouge wrote:
Perhaps He/she needed an inverter and had an unused Nand floating around on the diagram. I have used that approach several times in some of my circuits

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Maybe LV should have a special "Green" or ROHS icon for code which was created without deleting anything except wires.... Recycling is cool.

Shane.

[Coq_Rouge]

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Wayne.C wrote:

Coq Rouge is probably right.  This was very common in the days of TTL and CMOS logic logic where you had a board full of individual logic IC's.   You might need an inverter and have an unused NAND gate available.  Waste not, want not.

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This was before my time. But I have heard the 7400 NAND gate circuit was the cheapest logic circuit around. So it was actually more cost-effective to only use NAND gates. Then I went to technical school we still had to learn how to make logic with only NAND gates.