Why is NAND primitive?

Posted by Andreas on
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Hi,

In the book, NAND is taken to be a primitive gate because all gates can be derived from it. As an exercise we utilise NAND's logic to create a NOT gate. However, a NAND gate is built with a NOT gate, so why build a NOT gate with a NAND gate?

Thanks.