Illegal Groupings

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Illegal Grouping! Minterms are not boolean adjacent!

A’B’C’ , AB’C will NOT reduce to a single product term A’B’C’ + AB’C = B’(A’C’+AC)

Valid groupings will always be a power of 2. (will cover 1, 2, 4, 8, etc minterms).

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