Fredkin gate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Invented by Edward Fredkin.

Noun[edit]

Fredkin gate (plural Fredkin gates)

  1. A three-bit computational circuit that swaps the last two bits if the first bit is 1. Any logical or arithmetic operation can be constructed entirely of such gates.
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