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Boolean Logic : George Boole's The Laws of Thought

Posted by michael on from the 1010001000110000111 dept.

Ian writes "The Globe and Mail has a piece about the man behind Boolean Logic - George Boole - The Isaac Newton of logic. 'It was 150 years ago that George Boole published his classic The Laws of Thought, in which he outlined concepts that form the underpinnings of the modern high-speed computer.'"

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  1. Boolean Logic by amigoro · · Score: 5, Funny
    A comment has to be insightful AND funny OR it is NOT worth reading.

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    1. Re:Boolean Logic by NemosomeN · · Score: 5, Funny

      A comment has to be insightful AND funny XOR it is NOT worth reading. Otherwise it makes that statement almost completely meaningless... hehe.

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  2. Boole tried to rewrite the Bible... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...but it apparently made even less sense in Boolean if you can believe that's even possible. And if he wasn't a Unitarian this whole mess of ours would have been in base 3.

  3. Bug found by a Bug by jeepee · · Score: 4, Funny


    Grace Hopper Found a bug? Was it a Grasshopper?

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    1. Re:Bug found by a Bug by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      You've been watching reruns again, haven't you?

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  4. Why... by Phosphor3k · · Score: 5, Funny

    Offtopic: Why did it take me 15 seconds to realize the word "Google" was no where in the story title? Anyone else have that problem?

  5. Funny name by DRUNK_BEAR · · Score: 4, Funny

    Am I the only one who finds that name Grace Hopper and the expression "computer bug" go well together? :oP

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  6. Re:Quick, how many here can define "bit"? by riqnevala · · Score: 3, Funny

    #define bit 1

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  7. Re:Boole Was Ada's Teacher by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    Some people also don't think that Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was the world's first computer.

    It was, however, the world's first vaporware.

  8. Re:The Real Bible Code? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    Boole undertook to rewrite the Bible in his mathematical logic.

    And 101101 sayeth unto 111000, "Don't partake of thy apple, for it is full of 110101001010". But sayeth 111000 back to 101101, "11111111 That! I am hungry!". Behold he biteth into thy apple, and suddenly God made him naked, and his "1" showed, and 101101 laughed because she thoughteth it was a decimal. But her "00" also showed, and 111000 laughed because he though they were two decimals.

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