Computer Science GCSE
NOT
What NOT means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definitions of NOT
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Reference: OCR
A unary operator that negates a single Boolean value, turning True into False and False into True.
Reverses a single value, turning True into False and False into True.
Topics that use NOT
- Boolean logic (OCR GCSE)
- Programming fundamentals (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- AND
- Condition-controlled iteration
- Evaluating AND, OR and NOT operators
- Evaluating combined logic circuits
- input and output
- Logic gate symbols and functions
- operator precedence
- Problem solving with logic
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