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arxiv: 1508.05737 · v1 · pith:QH42UHKQnew · submitted 2015-08-24 · 💻 cs.CC

When Six Gates are Not Enough

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We apply the pigeonhole principle to show that there must exist Boolean functions on 7 inputs with a multiplicative complexity of at least 7, i.e., that cannot be computed with only 6 multiplications in the Galois field with two elements.

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