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  • The operation “majority rule” does not satisfy associative law.
  • Therefore, the result depends on the order in which the operations are performed.
    • The non-linearity makes the total amount of “A6B9” and “B” larger, but applying the “majority rule” operation to the combination “A2B1” to make it “A” yields a gain of 2 points compared to doing the same operation to “B3” to make it “B”.
    • Problems of Representation by Nonlinear Functions

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