Willard Van Orman Quine - 2023 BHSU

Question

An algorithm partially named for this logician is employed when there are too many variables to easily solve a Karnaugh map by hand. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this logician, 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 takes no input and produces only this output. This stuff is edited in programs like vim and Emacs and is transformed by compilers.

ANSWER: its own source code [prompt on text]

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Summary


2023 BHSU @ Berkeley	03/18/2023	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland	03/11/2023	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2023 BHSU Online	04/15/2023	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield	04/15/2023	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo	04/15/2023	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	13.33	33%	100%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Yale	04/08/2023	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern	02/25/2023	N	5	12.00	80%	40%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Stanford A	0	10	10
[Insert Lawyer Joke Here]	It's Joever	0	10	10
Glass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery	Rutgers Diaspora	0	10	10
Maryland A	Maryland B+	10	10	20
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 Negs	Fan-tastic Negs and Where to Find Them	10	10	20
Cornell C++	Rollin in from Sturgis, The Cheyne Gang	0	10	10
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy B	Houston and friends	0	10	10
Hutto Hippos	What is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU	10	10	20
Broken Imperial Nomads	Oxford Hornets	10	10	20
Buzzers Karamazov	Magisters Ludi	0	10	10
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style	The Passion According to C.H.	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	10	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	10	10	20
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	0	0
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	10	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	10	10	20
Columbia B	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	0	0
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	Columbia B	0	10	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	10	0	10
Olmo (Bonus) Bagelry	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	10	10	20
meet the new weird, same as the old weird	UG Championship Players (and Mazin)	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	Watching Arthur Delot-Vilain at Chicago Open Made Me Like French People Again	0	10	10
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	10	10	20
nats is supposed to mean you all have gone soft	meet the new weird, same as the old weird	10	10	20