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Welcome! This is a lesson in the Introductory Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science course here at Wikiversity.

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Your first dyadic operator!

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I apologize for the name of this lesson. The true name of this operator, which is a dyadic operator, is a conjunction. It is a bit dangerous to refer to a conjunction as an AND operator, because English words are far more vague than logic.

  • A dyadic operator takes 2 arguments, p and q. It returns a single truth value.
  • The conjunction, represented by the symbol  , returns the value "true" if and only if both arguments are true.

  : This is the conjunction or AND operator

  • Let   represent the statement: It is raining.
Let   represent the statement: I am hungry.
  represents the conjunction of statements   and  : It is raining AND I am hungry.


  • Let   represent the false statement: It is raining.
Let   represent the true statement: I am hungry.
  is false.

Truth table for conjunction statements

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T T T
T F F
F T F
F F F

Next lesson

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Your next lesson is called Logical OR.