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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