Appendix A

The Basics of Logic Design

I always loved that word, Boolean.

Claude Shannon IEEE Spectrum, April 1992 (Shannon’s master’s thesis showed that the algebra invented by George Boole in the 1800s could represent the workings of electrical switches.)

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