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Example Espresso minimization of the redundant Boolean logic statement: 1 OR (1 AND 2). The left side shows a truth table, which reveals that Output 1 depends only on Term 1—Term 2 is irrelevant to the output. Espresso minimizes this redundant statement to Term 1 only and produces a new truth table (shown on the right) which is equivalent to, but simpler than, the truth table on the left.
