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@@ -233,26 +233,10 @@ states that:
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* `news` must not be present
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* `quick` and `brown` are optional -- their presence increases the relevance
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-The familiar operators `AND`, `OR` and `NOT` (also written `&&`, `||` and `!`)
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-are also supported. However, the effects of these operators can be more
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-complicated than is obvious at first glance. `NOT` takes precedence over
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-`AND`, which takes precedence over `OR`. While the `+` and `-` only affect
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-the term to the right of the operator, `AND` and `OR` can affect the terms to
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-the left and right.
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-****
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-Rewriting the above query using `AND`, `OR` and `NOT` demonstrates the
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-complexity:
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-`quick OR brown AND fox AND NOT news`::
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-
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-This is incorrect, because `brown` is now a required term.
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-`(quick OR brown) AND fox AND NOT news`::
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-This is incorrect because at least one of `quick` or `brown` is now required
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-and the search for those terms would be scored differently from the original
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-query.
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+The familiar boolean operators `AND`, `OR` and `NOT` (also written `&&`, `||`
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+and `!`) are also supported but beware that they do not honor the usual
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+precedence rules, so parentheses should be used whenever multiple operators are
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+used together. For instance the previous query could be rewritten as:
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`((quick AND fox) OR (brown AND fox) OR fox) AND NOT news`::
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