Shannon's expansion

Well, Shannon's Expansion is a way of breaking down mathematical expressions that have in them an "or" sign. When we look at this "or" sign, we want to know how it affects the entire expression.

It's like if you were given a candy and asked if you wanted chocolate or vanilla ice cream. You have to choose between the two, but you still get some kind of ice cream.

In the same way, with Shannon's Expansion, we are trying to figure out different outcomes of a mathematical expression that has an "or" in it.

To do this, we break the expression down into smaller parts, and we try to figure out all the different ways these parts can fit together. Each of these different ways is called a "term."

Think of it like a puzzle. If we have a big puzzle that's too hard to solve, we can break it down into smaller pieces and then solve each of those pieces.

So, Shannon's Expansion is a way to break down complex mathematical expressions into smaller, solvable parts, which can help us understand more about the expression in question.