In Boolean logic, the term implicant has either a generic or a particular use. In the generic use, it refers to the hypothesis of an implication (implicant). In the particular use, a product term (i.e., a conjunction of literals) P is an implicant of a Boolean function F, denoted P \le F, if P implies F (i.e., whenever P takes the value 1 so does F). For instance, implicants of the function f(x,y,z,w)=xy+yz+w include the terms xy, xyz, xyzw, w, as well as some others.
In Boolean logic, the term implicant has either a generic or a particular use. In the generic use, it refers to the hypothesis of an implication (implicant). In the particular use, a product term (i.e., a conjunction of literals) P is an implicant of a Boolean function F, denoted P \le F, if P implies F (i.e., whenever P takes the value 1 so does F). For instance, implicants of the function f(x,y,z,w)=xy+yz+w include the terms xy, xyz, xyzw, w, as well as some others.
== Prime implicant == A prime implicant of a function is an implicant (in the above particular sense) that cannot be covered by a more general (more reduced, meaning with fewer literals) implicant. W. V. Quine defined a prime implicant to be an implicant that is minimal—that is, the removal of any literal from P results in a non-implicant for F. An essential prime implicant (also known as core prime implicant) is a prime implicant that covers an input combination, for which the function is true (i.e. outputs 1), that no combination of other prime implicants is able to cover.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).