Computer Science GCSE
Truth table construction
What Truth table construction means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Truth table construction
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Reference: OCR
A table lists every possible combination of input values and the resulting output for a Boolean expression, with a column for each intermediate operation before the final output.
Topics that use Truth table construction
- 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
- Testing logical equivalence
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