prime implicant

prime implicant
a) A group of related 1s (implicant) on a Karnaugh map which is not subsumed by any other implicant in the same map.
b) A group of related 0s (implicant) on a Karnaugh map which is not subsumed by any other implicant (of 0s) in the same map.

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