Logic problem: need better logic for desired thruth table.

[sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com]

On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 3:17:10 PM UTC-7, Michael Torrie wrote:
> On 05/28/2015 03:58 PM, sohcahtoa82 at gmail.com wrote:
> > I think the logic you're really looking for is:
> > 
> > return BotWaitForCooldown or (not (BotWaitForCooldown or CooldownDetected))
> 
> Yes this is the simplest form.  For more complicated truth tables you
> can create a K map and then apply a reduction algorithm to it.  This is
> commonly done in logic circuits to reduce the number of gates to the
> minimum.  While not faster, it can be expressed as:
> 
> return BotWaitForCooldown or not BotWaitForCooldown and not
> CooldownDectected
> 
> Order of operations puts the ands above the ors.

Order of operations might put the ands above the ors, but I still like using parentheses in expressions like that as I think it makes it more clear.