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  • noun The hypothesis of an implication
  • noun electrical engineering On a Karnaugh map: a set of 1's (whose quantity is a power of two) which are related by adjacency (i.e., the set is connected, if the Karnaugh map is considered to be a graph which "wraps around" its edges, like a torus; and, all elements of the subgraph induced by the set have the same degree). Equivalently (in terms of Boolean algebra), a product term which, when true, always implies that the given Boolean function is true.

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  • [5] The doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas is 'Cum possit Deus omnia efficere quae esae possunt, non autem quae contradictionem implicant, omnipotens merito dicitur.'

    Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge Hastings Rashdall

  • * Deus potest omnia quae contradictionem non implicant.

    The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

  • [31] Deus potest omnia quae contradictionem non implicant.

    The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842

  • Fundamentally, when considering content on the Internet (documents, images, music films, books etc) the prevailing sentiment is that this content is "free" and we have the implicant rights to share and distribute.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English 2010

  • Fundamentally, when considering content on the Internet (documents, images, music films, books etc) the prevailing sentiment is that this content is "free" and we have the implicant rights to share and distribute.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English 2010

  • _Amiti_, 10. upon which if they sit they enwrap their Feathers, so that they cannot fly away, and fall down to the ground. quibus si insident, implicant pennas, ut nequeant avolare,

    The Orbis Pictus Johann Amos Comenius 1631

  • When we get these binaries, now we can compare each one of them to the binary form of the inputs to determine the term identical to the state of prime implicant.

    The Code Project Latest Articles legendman_a1 2009

  • As example if the prime implicant has one dash, so we got only two states (0 or 1), if it has two dashes, we got four states (00 or 01 or 10 or 11).

    The Code Project Latest Articles legendman_a1 2009

  • An implicant of a function is a product term that can be used in a SOP

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • The unreapted_terms variable is the number of unrepeated terms (tha have only one X in its column), the strcmp function compares between each input (binary form) and each state of a prime implicant, at any condition they are equal, the prime implicant itself not a state of it copied to the ess_pri_imp array.

    The Code Project Latest Articles legendman_a1 2009

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