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'''Exclusive disjunction''', also known as '''logical inequality''' or '''symmetric difference''', is an operation on two logical values, typically the values of two [[proposition]]s, that produces a value of ''true'' just in case exactly one of its operands is true.
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'''Exclusive disjunction''', also known as '''logical inequality''' or '''symmetric difference''', is an operation on two logical values, typically the values of two propositions, that produces a value of ''true'' just in case exactly one of its operands is true.
  
 
The [[truth table]] of <math>p ~\operatorname{XOR}~ q</math> (also written as <math>p + q\!</math> or <math>p \ne q\!</math>) is as follows:
 
The [[truth table]] of <math>p ~\operatorname{XOR}~ q</math> (also written as <math>p + q\!</math> or <math>p \ne q\!</math>) is as follows:

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Exclusive disjunction, also known as logical inequality or symmetric difference, is an operation on two logical values, typically the values of two propositions, that produces a value of true just in case exactly one of its operands is true.

The truth table of \(p ~\operatorname{XOR}~ q\) (also written as \(p + q\!\) or \(p \ne q\!\)) is as follows:


\(\text{Exclusive Disjunction}\!\)
\(p\!\) \(q\!\) \(p ~\operatorname{XOR}~ q\)
\(\operatorname{F}\) \(\operatorname{F}\) \(\operatorname{F}\)
\(\operatorname{F}\) \(\operatorname{T}\) \(\operatorname{T}\)
\(\operatorname{T}\) \(\operatorname{F}\) \(\operatorname{T}\)
\(\operatorname{T}\) \(\operatorname{T}\) \(\operatorname{F}\)


The following equivalents can then be deduced:

\[\begin{matrix} p + q & = & (p \land \lnot q) & \lor & (\lnot p \land q) \\ \\ & = & (p \lor q) & \land & (\lnot p \lor \lnot q) \\ \\ & = & (p \lor q) & \land & \lnot (p \land q) \end{matrix}\]

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