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Electrical symbols in general don't do so well when scaled down to the size of text. Plus, it is very uncommon to encounter the electrical gate symbols inline with text - usually the symbols are sitting in a separate circuit diagram.

Nevertheless, Unicode does have all of the logical symbols from mathematics, which are pretty commonly understood:

    ∧∨¬⊕


Before Unicode made it so, when was there a need for an ice cream or a poo inline with the text? It's a way of expressing language.




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