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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Boolean

in reference to abstract algebraic systems, 1851, named for George Boole (1815-1864), English mathematician. The surname is a variant of Bull.

Wiktionary
boolean

a. (alternative case form of Boolean English) n. (alternative case form of Boolean English)

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Boolean

In most computer programming languages, a Boolean data type is a data type with only two possible values: true or false.

Related to this, Boolean (named after George Boole) may also refer to:

  • Boolean algebra, a logical calculus of truth values or set membership
  • Boolean algebra (structure), a set with operations resembling logical ones
  • Boolean circuit, a mathematical model for digital logical circuits.
  • Boolean expression, an expression in a programming language that produces a Boolean value when evaluated
  • Boolean function, a function that determines Boolean values or operators
  • Boolean model (probability theory), a model in stochastic geometry
  • Boolean network, a certain network consisting of a set of Boolean variables whose state is determined by other variables in the network
  • Boolean processor, a 1-bit variables computing unit
  • Boolean satisfiability problem

Usage examples of "boolean".

Somehow she, or fate, or, more likely Boolean, has come up with something we failed to anticipate, some new equation that is challenging the neat and ordered set we were dealing with.

I could have removed mem, but to take my concentration off Boolean would have given him the opening to destroy me.

Still, with Boolean in the act, I knew that there was at least a slim chance that our quarry might elude us in Akahlar, where they could not be so easily located.

I risked a small spell, down, below all of us, figuring that Boolean would not notice such a minor thing directed elsewhere than at him or the girlsand he did not.

A simple system, and, yet, one Boolean could do nothing about without negating the duplication as well, and one that would make our quarry stand out in our society and, not incidentally, would prevent the natural experimentation that might have resulted in a pregnancy.

I have been itching to do this ever since we managed to contain Boolean inside Masalur.

It will be an excellent test no matter what, and we might just eliminate Boolean in the process, although I fear he leads a life as charmed as that girl we have been chasing.

Many magicians, including Dorion, could handle English, having learned it by spell, since for some reason English, or a form of it, was a major language of the high Akhbreed sorcerers, but without Dorion or Boolean around she was cut off there, too.

You are associated with Boolean and many of the monarchs and sorcerers believe that he might somehow be behind this.

Klittichom has always treated Boolean with contempt but has never tried to get sorcerous and political action against him.

Also, Boolean has been outspoken for years in his contempt for the Akhbreed way and consistently a defender of colonials, as if they were capable of governing themselves.

He was moving his forces openly, making low-level attacks and high-level threats against the kingdoms in the most brazen manner, and because they liked Klittichom and considered him a good-fellow-well-met who said all the right things, and they had a personality problem with Boolean, who always spoke his mind, it was the latter who was getting the blame and taking the heat!

I know Boolean, although he and I are not exactly on close terms right now- It is true he would not lift a finger to defend the system unless it was threatened with replacement by a system far worse or even direr consequences.

Klittichom with his Storm Princess versus Boolean with his, if he can ever find her or she him.

Because of his views, they consider a Boolean victory more of a threat to them than a Klittichom one.