Comments on: Booleans Add Up http://jimmyg.org/2007/05/31/booleans-add-up/ A personal weblog Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:47:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Paddy3118 http://jimmyg.org/2007/05/31/booleans-add-up/#comment-5 Paddy3118 Thu, 31 May 2007 20:11:53 +0000 http://jimmyg.org/2007/05/31/booleans-add-up/#comment-5 The two boolean constants True and False are defined to have the integer values 1 and 0 when used in a numerical context. Many processors have represented false as the value zero. Many programming languages picked up on this and used integer zero as false and any other integer value as representing true. C does this and Pythons ideas of true and false are rooted in that, but with nobs on: http://docs.python.org/lib/truth.html, http://docs.python.org/lib/node34.html . - Paddy. The two boolean constants True and False are defined to have the integer values 1 and 0 when used in a numerical context.
Many processors have represented false as the value zero. Many programming languages picked up on this and used integer zero as false and any other integer value as representing true. C does this and Pythons ideas of true and false are rooted in that, but with nobs on: http://docs.python.org/lib/truth.html, http://docs.python.org/lib/node34.html .

- Paddy.

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