12 January 2006

What in the world is 'fuzzy logic'?

I confess. Reading the local free paper tonight I saw another ad for a 'fuzzy logic' consumer device - an LG fridge. Our LG washing machine also has fuzzy logic - and I don't have a clue what it means.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Fuzzy logic is an extension of Boolean logic dealing with the concept of partial truth. Whereas classical logic holds that everything (statements) can be expressed in binary terms (0 or 1, black or white, yes or no), fuzzy logic replaces boolean truth values with degrees of truth. These statement representations are in fact nearer to real-life human problems and statements, because truth and results are, most of the time, partial (not binary) and/or imprecise (as in inaccurate, blurred, fuzzy).

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