# Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey

## version 1.00

This module creates objects designed to solve boolean expressions via
the Quine-McCluskey algorithm. Its effectiveness is dependent on the
size of problem; the number of minterms that can be set goes up
exponentially with the number of variables, which limits the size of
the problems that can be solved.

Currently, a test with 12 variables (meaning there are 4,096 terms)
takes 3 minutes to solve on a not-terribly-modern i7 Pentium laptop
computer with 4G of memory. This would seem to be a reasonable
upper limit to what this algorithm can solve.

## INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

```shell
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
```

## SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

Depending upon your system, you can view documentation using the 'perldoc'
or 'man' command. Online, you can also look for information at
[MetaCPAN](https://metacpan.org/release/Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey) or
[Github](https://github.com/jgamble/Algorithm-QuineMcCluskey)

Helpful links to supporting web sites and documentation are listed on the page.

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (C) 2006 Darren Kulp

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.