62: Valentine - Karnaugh
Valentine - Karnaugh |
Title text: Love and circuit analysis, hand in hand at last. |
Explanation
- A Karnaugh map is a Boolean algebra tool which is used to simplify expressions.
- The final picture, the one that looks like a crossword puzzle, is similar to the way that a Karnaugh map is used on a Boolean truth table, to identify areas that can be simplified.
- This picture shows how the process is used to simplify logic circuits.
- The lament of the valentine is that feelings don't yield themselves to the same kind of analysis.
Transcript
- [squiggly heart design]
- You make me feel so much
- it all runs together
- I wish I could tell you
- [crisscrossing heart design]
- So few words
- for so many feelings
- crisscrossing my heart
- [heart matrix design]
- A matrix of desire
- Tangled relations
- I can't simplify
- [Karnaugh map of hearts]
- I wish I could find
- the Karnaugh map
- for love.
Discussion
As of 16.4.2021 the image on xkcd.com is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.
- Curious indeed. ISaveXKCDpapers (talk) 06:57, 5 August 2021 (UTC)