Ch 1 · Why Logic Gates · Theory
Topic 1 of 10 in Boolean Logic & Logic Gates — How Machines Decide — 2 lessons.
Decisions from 0s and 1s
In the previous topic you saw that everything is stored as bits. Logic gates are how a computer *acts* on those bits. A gate is a tiny electronic circuit that takes one or more bits in and produces exactly one bit out, following a fixed rule.
True, False, and Boolean
This whole area is called Boolean logic, after mathematician George Boole. A Boolean value is one of just two things — true or false, which we write as 1 or 0. Logic gates combine Boolean inputs into a Boolean output.