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Improved definition & explanation.

Henceforth, XAND is the first kind of XAND defined to realize minterm 1.
XNAND is defined as the complement of XAND. Therefore,

A XAND B = A AND NOT B

.:

A XNAND B = B OR NOT A

.: the set of all dual-input binary gates are:

0

A AND B

A XAND B

A

B XAND A

B

A XOR B

A OR B

A NOR B

A XNOR B

NOT B

A XNAND B

NOT A

B XNAND A

A NAND B

1

Thus XAND and XNAND lack reflexivity.

The nth kind of exclusive-and gate realizes mintern n, so it must have ceil(lg(n)) or more inputs, with the unused msbs tied low. In for this purpose, A above is the lsb.