Digital Logic - Old Questions

6. Explain the duality theorem with example.

5 marks | Asked in 2073

It states that “Every algebraic expression deducible from the postulates of Boolean algebra remains valid if the operators and identity elements are interchanged”. In a two-valued Boolean algebra, the identity elements and the elements of the set B are the same: 1 and 0. If the dual of an algebraic expression is desired, we simply interchange OR and AND operators and replace 1's by 0's and 0's by 1's.

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