Logical NOR

In Boolean logic, logical NOR or joint denial is a truth-functional operator which produces a result that is the negation of logical or. That is, a sentence of the form (p NOR q) is true precisely when neither p nor q is true—i.e. when both of p and q are false. It is logically equivalent to ${\displaystyle \neg (p\lor q)}$ and ${\displaystyle \neg p\land \neg q}$, where the symbol ${\displaystyle \neg }$ signifies logical negation, ${\displaystyle \lor }$ signifies OR, and ${\displaystyle \land }$ signifies AND.

Logical NOR

NOR
Definition	${\displaystyle {\overline {x+y}}}$
Truth table	${\displaystyle (0001)}$
Logic gate
Normal forms
Disjunctive	${\displaystyle {\overline {x}}\cdot {\overline {y}}}$
Conjunctive	${\displaystyle {\overline {x}}\cdot {\overline {y}}}$
Zhegalkin polynomial	${\displaystyle 1\oplus x\oplus y\oplus xy}$
Post's lattices
0-preserving	no
1-preserving	no
Monotone	no
Affine	no

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The NOR operator is also known as Peirce's arrow. Charles Sanders Peirce, in unpublished manuscripts, first considered it as a logical operator, and showed that it can express logical NOT, AND, and OR. Edward Bronisław Stamm,[1] Henry Maurice Sheffer,[2] and Jean George Pierre Nicod[3] were the first to discuss it in print. Willard Van Orman Quine introduced the symbol ${\displaystyle \downarrow }$ for it.[4] As with its dual, the NAND operator (also known as the Sheffer stroke—symbolized as either ${\displaystyle \uparrow }$, ${\displaystyle \mid }$ or ${\displaystyle /}$), NOR can be used by itself, without any other logical operator, to constitute a logical formal system (making NOR functionally complete). Other terms for the NOR operator include Quine's dagger, the ampheck (from Ancient Greek ἀμφήκης, amphēkēs, "cutting both ways") used by Peirce,[5][6] Webb operator,[7] Webb operation[6] or Webb function by Donald Loomis Webb,[8] and neither-nor. Other ways of notating ${\displaystyle P\downarrow Q}$ include, P NOR Q, and "Xpq" (in Bocheński notation).

The computer used in the spacecraft that first carried humans to the moon, the Apollo Guidance Computer, was constructed entirely using NOR gates with three inputs.[9]