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Re: Spoiler alert? (Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits)

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Date 2013-12-09 15:45 -0500
Subject Re: Spoiler alert? (Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits)
From Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:39 PM, John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> It has been ages since I've thought about logic gates, but...
>
> My thought is that with two NOT logic gates, you can only build a
> flip-flop memory circuit.  That strongly suggests to me that a memory
> circuit would actually be used to solve the problem somehow.
>
> Two NOT gates plus as many AND and OR gates as you need.


> I'm thinking that feedback loops would have to be involved, no matter what
> the solution is.  A need for feedback loops would make it very hard to
> write code to look for the solution automatically.  The dimensionality of
> the search space will be high.
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Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-12-09 12:49 +0100
  Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-10 00:25 +1100
    Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsduifb@gmx.de> - 2013-12-11 14:52 +0100
  Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 15:19 -0500
  Spoiler alert? (Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits) John Ladasky <john_ladasky@sbcglobal.net> - 2013-12-09 12:39 -0800
    Re: Spoiler alert? (Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits) Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 15:45 -0500
  Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-10 12:41 +1100
  Fwd: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-12-09 21:03 -0500
  Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-10 13:21 +1100
  Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-10 19:50 +1100
  Re: Programming puzzle with boolean circuits Antoon Pardon <antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> - 2013-12-10 15:25 +0100

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