An IB question requests: Construct the logic diagram for the Boolean expression NOT A OR B AND C.
The answer
looks to me like not A or (B and C), whereas what I expected only gets partial credit. Can someone explain?
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The question is assuming that the operators precedence goes $NOT \rightarrow AND \rightarrow OR$, which is pretty standard for boolean logic.
Hence the proper parathensization would be $\text{((NOT A) OR (B AND C))}$, which correspods to the correct diagram, whereas the partial credits corresponds to $\text{(((NOT A) OR B) AND C)}$, which would just be a left to right evaluation of the operators.
