Depth of a Boolean circuit (source code)

= Depth of a Boolean circuit
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= Circuit depth
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Circuit depth is the largest number of counted gates on any input-to-output path in the <Boolean circuit>. For an AND/OR circuit with negations on input literals, only the AND/OR gates are counted. This convention makes the restriction argument for the <Linial-Mansour-Nisan theorem> precise.