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-Now, if we observer the first table, we should recognize the table for the '''and''' operator!  So it is true: arithmetic on bits can actually be done as a logic operation.  But is it true of the '''C''' bit?  We do not recognize the truth table of a known operator.  But remember the ice cream example; we probably come up with a logic expression that matches this table.   An easy way to come up with this expression is to express it in English first and then translate it into a logic expression:
+Now, if we observe the first table, we should recognize the table for the '''and''' operator!  So it is true: arithmetic on bits can actually be done as a logic operation.  But is it true of the '''S''' bit?  We do not recognize the truth table of a known operator.  But remember the ice cream example; we probably come up with a logic expression that matches this table.   An easy way to come up with this expression is to express it in English first and then translate it into a logic expression:
 ::'''S''' is true in two cases: when '''a''' is true and '''b''' is false, or when '''a''' is false and '''b''' is true.