Boolean
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The adjective Boolean (sometimes boolean), coined in honor of George Boole, is used in many contexts:
- An evaluation that results in either TRUE or FALSE.
- A boolean value is a truth value, either "true" or "false", often coded 1 and 0, respectively.
- A boolean-valued function of one variable is a characteristic function or an indicator function of a subset of its domain.
- For a boolean-valued function of two variables see binary relation.
- For use in mathematics, see Boolean algebra.
- For a basic introduction to sets, Boolean operations, Venn diagrams, truth tables, and Boolean applications, see Boolean logic
- In computer science, "boolean" is a datatype, usually a primitive datatype. See Boolean datatype.
- For boolean templates on Wikipedia, see Category:Boolean templates.