Posts Tagged ‘ boolean algebra ’

Xiaolu’s Reflection Week 10

November 17, 2011
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Xiaolu’s Reflection Week 10

“revised logic circuit2“, Dr. John Bullas, Flickr, (CC) BY-NC Wow! It’s hard to believe 10 weeks of school have already passed! Time really flies! Well, this week, I learned about Boolean Algebra! Boolean Algebra, to my surprise, is actually quite easy and fun. It is actually easier than logic notation and set notation! The properties are…

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Erik’s Reflection Week 10

November 16, 2011
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Erik’s Reflection Week 10

  The second pi approximation day is only 35 days away on December 21 at 1:13! {[(The 355 day of the year divided by 1:13 = 3.14159) (The first pi approximation day is July 22nd)] [(The first pi day of the year is March 14)(The second pi day is November 10th, the 314th day of…

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Cecilia’s Reflection Week 10

November 14, 2011
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Cecilia’s Reflection Week 10

How to start this week’s reflection? That is the question I have been asking myself for the past twenty-two minutes, blankly staring at my computer screen. This week was not particularly exciting. We learned about Boolean Algebra, which is basically another way of expressing logic notation and set notation, except with different symbols. I didn’t…

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Jacob’s Reflection Week 13

December 6, 2010
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Jacob’s Reflection Week 13

Hello! So… Karnaugh maps… Ughhhh!! Not only confusing, but they were impossible because I really didn’t know how to use them. And the logic gates were confusing as well. I mean, why would you create logic gates in the first place! They have no need and therefore should never be used. The U.S. had a…

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Jacob’s Reflection Week 12

November 29, 2010
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Jacob’s Reflection Week 12

Nooooooooooooo!!!!! How could I forget that we had our reflections to do!!! I mean, I knew bad memory would come with old age, but I thought that I was still a good 40 years from that! Oh well, i guess better late than never. I found that the similarities between logical, set, and boolean equivalences were interesting, because I…

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Allen’s Relfection Week 12

November 25, 2010
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Allen’s Relfection Week 12

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Woah! I almost forgot about my reflection! And it’s due on Thanksgiving! It always will be, because Thanksgiving is always the third  Thursday of November. This week’s homework I did not finish yet. I allowed myself a break because math homework is not due today, but rather… next week. I was fooled by…

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