Given this logical operation :
(A AND B) OR (C AND D)
Is there a way to write a similar expression without using any parentheses and giving the same result ? Usage of logical operators AND, OR, NOT are allowed.
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Given this logical operation :
(A AND B) OR (C AND D)
Is there a way to write a similar expression without using any parentheses and giving the same result ? Usage of logical operators AND, OR, NOT are allowed.
Yes:
In most programming languages,
andis taken to have higher precedence thanor(this stems from the equivalence ofandandorto*and+, respectively).Of course, if your original expression had been:
you couldn’t simply remove the parentheses. In this instance, you’d have to “multiply out” the factors: