Applying Logic Gates on Numeric Data.. How it works?

[Abuzar]

Hello,

While working with labview i tried to apply OR Gate on Numeric Data, it accepted the input and replied the output in Numeric form too.

I couldnt understand how is it working on a numeric data while the input are supposed to be boolean for the logic gates input.

The outputs are also out of the assumption at 5 || 4 gives result 5.

I am also attaching my VI.

Kindly inform what is the logic behind this calculation.

Regards

[P@Anand]

I am not sure how it is done but when I did the same logical operation by converting the number to Boolean array the result is same. So I guess internally LabVIEW converts the number to boolean array and performs Logical operation and back converts it. In your example additionaly it converts DBL to I 32 and does the logical operation.

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi,

logical operations work with integers (any kind will do) too. The integer is used bitwise...

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The outputs are also out of the assumption at 5 || 4 gives result 5.

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5 is "0101" in binary representation, 4 is "0100":

0101 OR
0100
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0101 result