Exclusive disjunction

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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 shown below:


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


The following equivalents may then be deduced:

\(\begin{matrix} p + q & = & (p \land \lnot q) & \lor & (\lnot p \land q) \\[6pt] & = & (p \lor q) & \land & (\lnot p \lor \lnot q) \\[6pt] & = & (p \lor q) & \land & \lnot (p \land q) \end{matrix}\)

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