boolean

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ADJ.

bad, blue

The programmer struggled with a bad boolean logic error that crashed the entire system.

BOOLEAN + NOUN

algebra, operators

The programmer used boolean operators to filter the search results more efficiently.

PREP.

with

The programmer struggled with boolean logic when building the conditional statements for the new feature.

Definitions

adj

1

Of or pertaining to the work of George Boole.

2

Pertaining to data items that can have “true” and “false” (or, equivalently, 1 and 0 respectively) as their only possible values and to operations on such values.

Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!

The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some commutative Boolean operators are not associative. Examples include NAND and NOR.

noun

1

A variable that can hold a single true/false (1/0) value.

adj

1

Alternative letter-case form of Boolean.

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Oh, Boolean operators! "Blue and ones"! Good idea!

Wiktionary

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The associativity of OR and AND is not at all obvious. It is tempting to assume that because OR and AND are commutative that they must be associative also. This is not the case, however, and some comm

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Are you at odds with Boolean algebra?

Tatoeba · #1010460

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Are you bad at Boolean algebra?

Tatoeba · #10016220