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in thread Zeckendorf representation

What do you mean by "short circuit"?
It means that the part after || will only be evaluated if it is needed know the result of the operator. In the case of the or-operator the second half is redundant if the first is true, since the total will be true no matter what the second part is.

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Re^4: Zeckendorf representation
by thmsdrew (Scribe) on Aug 27, 2012 at 03:40 UTC

    I don't really understand how that is a problem. If the first part passes, then I want it to return true, and I truly don't care what the second part is. I guess I see how that's redundant, though.

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