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So I'm trying to detect through Visual Basic 6.0 when a voltage change occurs on one of the pins of the serial/parallel port. The whole thing is pretty simple; no data transfer/handshaking/etc needs ...

Figure 1: Molecular implementation of propositional logic statements and deductions. Using this system one can specify logic programs with facts and rules as well as various queries as a text file. A ...