Hello Monks

I have been working a program for quite some time now, and well I have gotten to a certain point, which I have stumped myself. What else is new?

Currently I am running a program that generates logical equestions, for example: a0 AND a1 OR d0. My program uses AND, OR for operators and a0,a1,d0,d1,d2,d3 for variables. I noticed as my program runs I get into a certain problem. Becuase my equations progressivly get bigger and bigger I get stuck with enormous equations, but some that have repeating values.

By repeating values take a look at the following equation:
a0 AND a0 OR d1 OR d1 AND d0

This equations can be simplified to a simpler equation:
a0 OR d1 AND d0
because value that are AND with itself or ORed is just its original value.

I was using regex, but just wanted to see others solution to the problem.

Regards,
Justin Archie

In reply to simplify logical equations by thealienz1

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