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[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 94 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

01111111 = true

11111111 = negative true = false

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

Could also store our bools as floats.

00111111100000000000000000000000 is true and 10111111100000000000000000000000 is negative true.

Has the fun twist that true & false is true and true | false is false .

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

negative true = negative non-zero = non-zero = true.

[–] pocker_machine@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So all this time true was actually false and false was actually true ?

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Depends on if you are on a big endian or little endian architecture.

[–] pocker_machine@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Come on man, I’m not gonna talk about my endian publicly

[–] StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 28 points 6 days ago (3 children)
[–] foofiepie@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

100001111 = maybe not

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

0011 1111 = could you repeat the question

[–] assa123@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

00000001 00000000 00001111 10101010

[–] tfm 6 points 6 days ago

Schrödingers Boolean

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 days ago

Is this quantum computing? 😜

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 34 points 1 week ago (4 children)

What if it's an unsigned boolean?

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago

Common misconception... Unsigned booleans (ubool) are always 16-bits.

[–] ivanovsky@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago

Cthulhu shows up.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago

Why do alternative facts always gotta show up uninvited to the party? 🥳