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Boolean

Boolean can be

• in mathematics, used in boolean algebra.
• in computer science, one of datatype, usually primitive datatypes

Both of these forms are named after the English mathematician George Bool (1815-1864), inventor of "the calculus of logic", now called "boolean algebra".

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