My naive question are the gates are always so trivial or are they usually black boxes with an unknown function underneath(instead of clearly defined ,+, etc).
In other words do we usually/always know what stands behind f(x,y)?
Otherwise, if f(x,y)=xy then obviously you can hardcode a heuretic that just cranks up max x and max y and gets max f(x,y).
That is the question is why should we tweak the input slightly not go all out.
My naive question are the gates are always so trivial or are they usually black boxes with an unknown function underneath(instead of clearly defined ,+, etc).
In other words do we usually/always know what stands behind f(x,y)?
Otherwise, if f(x,y)=xy then obviously you can hardcode a heuretic that just cranks up max x and max y and gets max f(x,y).
That is the question is why should we tweak the input slightly not go all out.