Re: ((a&&b)||c)==((a||c)&&(b||c))
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- Subject: [mg62042] Re: [mg62015] ((a&&b)||c)==((a||c)&&(b||c))
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:50:25 -0500 (EST)
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On 9 Nov 2005, at 19:09, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote:
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>
> On 9 Nov 2005, at 17:45, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>
>> Why does Mathematica not determine that the following is true?
>>
>> ((a \[And] b) \[Or] c) == ((a \[Or] c) \[And] (b \[Or] c))
>>
>> This little function shows that the lhs and rhs have the same
>> truth tables,
>> and are therefore equivalent:
>>
>> TruthTable[s_, argc_] := Module[
>> {tt = Tuples[{True, False}, argc]},
>> {#, s @@ #} & /@ tt // TableForm
>> ]
>>
>> --
>> The Mathematica Wiki: http://www.mathematica-users.org/
>> Math for Comp Sci http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/math/bmwcs/master.html
>> Math for the WWW: http://www.w3.org/Math/
>>
>
> Because, (as I tried to explain in a reply to a recent posting of
> yours) this is not the way == is used in Mathematica. The correct
> way to show this is:
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> Implies[(a â?¨ c) â?§ (b â?¨ c),(a â?§ b) â?¨ c]//FullSimplify
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> True
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> Implies[(a â?§ b) â?¨ c,(a â?¨ c) â?§ (b â?¨ c)]//FullSimplify
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> True
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> Andrzej Kozlowski
>
>
Actually, there is at least one more way to do this, which you may
like better:
LogicalExpand[(a â?§ b) â?¨ c]==LogicalExpand[(a â?¨ c) â?§ (b â?¨ c)]
True
But this one is actually less reliable.
Andrzej Kozlowski
- References:
- ((a&&b)||c)==((a||c)&&(b||c))
- From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@globalsymmetry.com>
- ((a&&b)||c)==((a||c)&&(b||c))