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

[Joel Goldstick]

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 3:39 PM, John Ladasky <john_ladasky at 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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