Gate -- the class of all gates

Description

A gate is a building block of an evaluation circuit. For instance, an InputGate represents an abstract unit of input, and a SumGate takes a list of inputs, and has an output which represents the sum of the inputs. For more information on the types of gates available in this package, as well as how to construct gates, see creating input gates.

Types of Gate :

DetGate
DivideGate
InputGate
ProductGate
SumGate

Methods that use an object of class Gate :

- Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate * Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate * Matrix -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate * Number -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate * RingElement -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate + Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate + Number -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate + RingElement -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate - Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate - Number -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate - RingElement -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate / Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Gate ^ ZZ -- see arithmetic with circuits
Matrix * Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Number * Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Number + Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
Number - Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
RingElement * Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
RingElement + Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
RingElement - Gate -- see arithmetic with circuits
compress(Gate) -- see compressing circuits
diff(InputGate,Gate) -- see differentiating circuits

For the programmer

The object Gate is a type, with ancestor classes HashTable < Thing.