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Nombre moyen de majorants d’une fonction Booléenne incomplète. Remarques concernant le nombre moyen de monômes premiers. (French) Zbl 0154.41601

English summary: The preliminary computation of the “majorants” enables the determination of the minimal or quasi-minimal disjunctive irredundant forms of an incompletely specified function [Rev. Franç. Inform. Rech. Opér. 1, No. 4, 73–86 (1967; Zbl 0189.29205)]. In practical cases, the search algorithm for the disjunctive irredundant form is applicable only if the number of “majorants” is not too large.
In this paper formulas are derived to determine the average value of this number. Then the computation of the average number of prime implicants, already given by F. Mileto and G. Putzolu [IEEE Trans. Electron. Comput. 13, 87–92 (1964; Zbl 0163.25803)], is rederived in a new form. The result is used to built functions having a great number of prime implicants and yields, for a function of \(n\) variables, a lower bound of the maximal number of prime implicants.

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94C11 Switching theory, applications of Boolean algebras to circuits and networks
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