24 Aug
2002
24 Aug
'02
2:30 p.m.
Eric S. Raymond
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Makes sense. Hardware designers care a lot about reduction to disjunctive normal form. Much more than logicians do, actually.
Hmm, I just realized that I've also seen it in an American book on discrete maths, so it's not just us Swedes ;)
Odd that I haven't encountered it.
Indeed. I thought this was quite standard when working with digital circuits etc... And -- I don't quite see why we're talking about Boolean algebra in general here, when we're specifically looking for set operators... Oh, well. -- Magnus Lie Hetland The Anygui Project http://hetland.org http://anygui.org