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BCS Glossary of Computing, 14th Edition
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BCS Glossary of Computing, 14th Edition

by BCS Academy Glossary Working Party, Arnold Burdett, Dan Bowen, Diana Butler, Aline Cumming, Frank Hurvid, Adrian Jackson, John Jaworski, Percy Mett, Thomas Ng, Penny Patterson, Marianne Scheer, Hazel Shaw, Alfred Vella, John Woollard, David Fuller
September 2016
Intermediate to advanced
510 pages
13h 48m
English
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
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E8 TRUTH TABLES AND LOGIC GATES

Binary logic (also known as Boolean algebra) is important in computing because the truth values, true and false, can be represented as the binary digits 1 and 0. All integrated circuits are designed using Boolean logic. They respond to the binary patterns they receive, and produce the required outputs as binary patterns. Binary logic influences not only the design of hardware, but also the design of algorithms and programming languages, for example the way a test such as ‘If the month is February and if it is a leap year’ is programmed in a high-level language.

BINARY LOGIC

Boolean algebra

also known as: binary logic

including: George Boole, Boolean values

is a set of rules for manipulating truth values according ...

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