This idea came to me when I discovered that NaN != NaN. and then I started looking at the interesting interactions NaN has. and noticed something particular... particularily with * x * y returns NaN if either or is NaN. but if both aren't, then it is equal to x^2 if I substitute x for Infinity and let NaN = false and Infinity = true x * y becomes AND.
now the goal here is to create either a NAND or a NOR gate so that I can make all the other gates so first I created the NOT gate and the rest was smooth sailing.
now that I have the basic tools for building circuits. it's natural to try and build stuff with them. Starting with a Half-Adder and Full-Adder. Additional functionality can be further built on top of this if anyone wants to create a really convoluted computer.
this calculator can handle 8-bit signed numbers
I consider this small project complete, a nice break from grinding Leetcode.
This isn't a node package so it isn't exactly appendable to a project without doing a bit of trickery
var fs = require('fs');
// file is included here:
eval(fs.readFileSync('convoluted.js')+'');
If you want to check if you've got it installed right. Do node test and see if everything is ok.