Computer Science GCSE
Logic gate symbols and functions
What Logic gate symbols and functions means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Logic gate symbols and functions
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Each gate has a distinctive symbol, and AND requires all inputs to be 1, OR requires at least one input to be 1, and NOT inverts its single input.
Topics that use Logic gate symbols and functions
- Boolean logic (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- AND
- Evaluating AND, OR and NOT operators
- Evaluating combined logic circuits
- NOT
- Problem solving with logic
- Systematic enumeration of input combinations
- Testing logical equivalence
- Truth table construction
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