De Morgan's laws
pair of transformation rules that are both valid rules of inference
In boolean algebra, DeMorgan's laws are the laws of how a NOT gate affects AND and OR statements:[1]
They can be remembered by "break the line, change the sign".
Truth tables
changeThe following truth tables prove DeMorgan's laws.
INPUT | OUTPUT 1 | OUTPUT 2 | |
A | B | NOT (A AND B) | (NOT A) OR (NOT B) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
INPUT | OUTPUT 1 | OUTPUT 2 | |
A | B | NOT (A OR B) | (NOT A) AND (NOT B) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
References
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