Shortest Circuit Evaluation

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Short circuit evaluation of Boolean expressions denotes the semantic in which the second argument of some Boolean operator is not evaluated if the value of the first argument is enough to have the result. This technique is used in many programming languages to optimize the evaluation of Boolean expressions. Specifically for "A and B", if A is false we know that the whole expression is false and

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