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For completeness, there is also Peirce’s arrow aka NOR operation which is functionally complete. Fun applications iirc VMProtect copy protection system has an internal VM based on NOR.

Quick google seach brings up https://github.com/pr701/nor_vm_core, which has a basic idea



That’s boolean functional completeness, which is kind of a trivial result (NAND, NOR). It mirrors this one insofar as the EDL operator is also a combination of a computation and a negation in the widest senses.




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