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* ''Film/ZombielandDoubleTap'': Tallahassee tells Little Rock, "[[DontDoAnythingIWouldntDo Don't do anything I wouldn't not do]]".
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* For one game on ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'', Q has to get someone to join a protest. He's holding signs that say "DON'T STOP LETTING PEOPLE NOT HELP". Even the other Jokers (who wrote the signs) aren't sure what that means.

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Footnote wasn't true: the negation of AND is NAND, not OR.


** It's confusing because "'''not'''" is the negative, so the line of code is saying "not the state is not Colorado and the city is not Denver", or, more simply, "the state is Colorado or the city is Denver"[[note]]NOT "and": Because an And statement is false if ''any'' of the arguments is false, the negation of an And is an Or[[/note]]. It'd be better to write it like this:

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** It's confusing because "'''not'''" is the negative, so the line of code is saying "not the state is not Colorado and the city is not Denver", or, more simply, "the state is Colorado or Denver." To simplify this, you could use [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws De Morgan's laws]] to re-write the city is Denver"[[note]]NOT "and": Because an And inner statement is false if ''any'' as a inverted "or" of normal statements rather than an "and" of inverted statements, after which the arguments is false, the negation of an And is an Or[[/note]]. It'd be better to write two negations cancel each other out and you're left with a positive statement. Step-by-step it would look like this:this:
---> '''not'''('''not''' (state = "Colorado" or city = "Denver"))

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