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Starting electronics<br />

Figure 10.14<br />

The results you should have got in your experiment<br />

An OR gate is not quite as simple as an inverter — an inverter,<br />

after all, has only one input. An OR gate has more than one<br />

input — in theory it can have any number of inputs but, obviously,<br />

as the number of inputs increases, the resultant truth<br />

table gets more complicated.<br />

Figure 10.15, shows a three input OR gate symbol and truth<br />

table. Being a three input gate, its truth table has eight variations.<br />

We can calculate this because, being binary digital,<br />

the circuit can have 2 3 = 8 variations of inputs.<br />

Figure 10.15<br />

(a) the symbol for an OR gate; (b) its truth table<br />

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