Logic Elements
Logic gates can be built that use water instead of electricity to power the gating function. These are reliant on being positioned in one orientation to perform correctly. An OR gate is simply two pipes being merged, a NOT gate consists of "A" deflecting a supply stream to produce Ā. An inverter could also be implemented with the XOR gate, as A XOR 1 = Ā.
Bubble logic is another kind of fluidic logic. Bubble logic gates conserve the number of bits entering and exiting the device, since bubbles are neither produced nor destroyed in the logic operation, analogous to billiard ball computer gates.
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