An algorithm partially named for this computer scientist is employed when there are too many variables to easily solve a Karnaugh map by hand. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this computer scientist, who developed that Boolean minimization algorithm with Edward McCluskey.
ANSWER: Willard Van Orman Quine
[10h] The first step of the Quine-McCluskey algorithm involves finding these things, the terms of a Boolean function that cannot be removed without leaving some subset of the output uncovered.
ANSWER: prime implicants [prompt on implicants alone]
[10e] Douglas Hofstadter coined the term “quine” for a program that outputs this. This stuff is transformed by compilers and edited in programs like vim and Emacs.
ANSWER: its own source code
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