Compound Arithmetic function

Object information
Owning palette(s)	Boolean palette | Numeric palette
Type	Function
Requires	Basic Development Environment
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The Compound Arithmetic function performs arithmetic on one or more numeric, array, cluster, or Boolean inputs. To select the operation (Add, Multiply, AND, OR, or XOR), right-click the function and select Change Mode from the shortcut menu. When you select this function from the Numeric palette, the default mode is Add. When you select this function from the Boolean palette, the default mode is OR.

Compound Arithmetic function

Usage

Change mode on the Compound Arithmetic function

Performs various logical and arithmetic operations on Boolean and numeric values for a dynamic amount of inputs.

Available operations:

• Add
• Multiply
• AND (see Logical And)
• OR (see Logical Or)
• XOR (see Exclusive Or)

This function is especially useful when doing logical and arithmetic operations on more than two input values.

Invert input and output:

The Compound Arithmetic function allows us to invert any of the inputs as well as the output selectively.

Tips and tricks

• Wire an error cluster to perform logical operations on error conditions.

History

Version	Change(s)
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See Also

• And function
• Or function
• Exclusive Or function
• Add function
• Multiply function