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Manually evaluating logical expressions

I'm not sure if this belongs here, but I was told to evaluate (00110101 ^ (10010101 v 10100000))

How is my answer suppose to look like? I was wondering how I would do this?

I'm thinking of treating each of those values as a variable like (a ^ (b v c)) then make a truth table? Is that what I'm suppose to do?

Solution

  • Do the stuff in the parentheses first:

       10010101
|  10100000
-----------
   101.....

    Then AND the result with the first number:

       00110101
&  101.....
-----------
   001.....