define minterm and the maxterm - canonical form

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Define Minterm and the Maxterm - Canonical Form?

Any Boolean expression perhaps expressed in terms of either minterms or maxterms. The literal is a single variable within a term which may or may not be complemented. For an expression with the N variables, minterms and maxterms are defined as follows:

A minterm is the product of the N distinct literals where each literal occurs exactly once.

A maxterm is the sum of the N distinct literals where each literal occurs exactly once.

For the two-variable expression, the maxterms and minterms are as follows

X	Y	Minterm	Maxterm
0	0	X'.Y'	X+Y
0	1	X'.Y	X+Y'
1	0	X.Y'	X'+Y
1	1	X.Y	X'+Y'

For a three-variable expression, the maxterms and minterms are as follows

X	Y	Z	Minterm	Designation	Maxterm	Designtion
0	0	0	X'.Y'.Z'	m0	X+Y+Z	M0
0	0	1	X'.Y'.Z	m1	X+Y+Z'	M1
0	1	0	X'.Y.Z'	m2	X+Y'+Z	M2
0	1	1	X'.Y.Z	m3	X+Y'+Z'	M3
1	0	0	X.Y'.Z'	m4	X'+Y+Z	M4
1	0	1	X.Y'.Z	m5	X'+Y+Z'	M5
1	1	0	X.Y.Z'	m6	X'+Y'+Z	M6
1	1	1	X.Y.Z	m7	X'+Y'+Z'	M7

 Consider a function F= x'y'z+xy'z'+xyz=m₁₊m₄+m₇

If we take the complement of F then F'= (x+y+z')(x'+y+z)(x'+y'+z')=M₁.M₄.M₇

Any Boolean function can be expressed as a product of Maxterms and Sum of Minterms.