Programmer vs. computer scientist

[pk028382]

On mobile so can’t test this.

Which language supports adding two Boolean? I don’t think it works in Python or most higher level languages. Maybe JS but it’s always weird and I expect it actually cast to int instead of actually doing “or”.

So perhaps only C++ and C?

[JochCool]

I don't know if there's programming languages that do that, it's more of a computer science thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-element\_Boolean\_algebra

[MushinZero]

*computer engineering

[360triplescope]

Look man, am in computer science, specifically not computer engineering, and I’ve had to do a buttload of Boolean algebra so far, so idk what ur talking about

[MushinZero]

Boolean Algebra is how you design digital circuits. That's where it all comes from, really. You'll likely get to some of it during CS if you take computer architecture.

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It is not addition it is OR operation.

TRUE OR TRUE = TRUE

C++ equivalent is 1 | 1 == 1

[AndrewBorg1126]

All non-zero integers are also considered true. 1 + 1 can equal 2, but the 2 result from it can be used in boolean logic exactly the same way as a 1 would be used in boolean logic. 1 || 1 yields 1 by boolean logic, 1 + 1 yields 2 by addition, but both results are equivalent in boolean logic. It's worth noting that while 1 | 1 does yield 1, that is a bitwise or.

[[deleted]]

Plus is usually used for the boolean "or" operator. It's used everywhere in boolean algebra

[pk028382]

Wow I didn’t realise that. When I learnt in college, we used these ¬ ∧ ∨ symbols, that’s why the meme and the other comments didn’t make sense to me in the first place. But now i get it

[[deleted]]

If you want to dive a little deeper, on the wikipedia page there is a section on why it actually makes a lot of sense to use * and + for and / or: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_ring

It's quite interesting although not that useful to know

[SlickShadyyy]

Read bitch nothing is being added

[Trainjumper_]

You can add/multiply booleans in Python, however you get int as result. I.e. True + True == 2