Computer Science GCSE
Testing logical equivalence
What Testing logical equivalence means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
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Using truth tables to test if two logical expressions are equivalent by comparing whether they produce identical outputs for all input combinations.
Topics that use Testing logical equivalence
- Boolean logic (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- AND
- Evaluating AND, OR and NOT operators
- Evaluating combined logic circuits
- Logic gate symbols and functions
- NOT
- Problem solving with logic
- Systematic enumeration of input combinations
- Truth table construction
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