How does the computer know if something is true or false
How does the computer know if something is true or false
Dylan Thomas
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Jose Parker
Current = true
No Current = false
Andrew Sanchez
It doesn't
Julian Bell
Mason Roberts
Where True exists, false lies.
It's all gray
Michael Rodriguez
isn't it the reverse? or is that for cds
Caleb White
0 is false, everything else is true.
Hudson Scott
For cds it can go both ways, that's what + and - stand for.
Ryder Gonzalez
The jews tell it what's true or false.
Ian Hill
It's a Boolean
It has exactly two states
Those states carry no other information than being different.
They are defined to be opposites by means of negation.
It really does not matter which state is called "true" for all we care is that we can assign meaning to the two states and they follow the laws.
Don't mix the up the Boolean with right and wrong or good and bad which are different concepts.
Mason Martin
How does it feel like to be an absolute brainlet?
Ian Diaz
It doesn't know what true or false means in our terms if that’s what you're asking. It compares the new input to data it has stored and executes a command based on the results.
Easton Foster
What do you mean by something?
Ian Nelson
Ternary. -1 false, 1 true, 0 unresolved or unproved
Leo Richardson
Based
Jaxson Taylor
I'm stumped.
Lucas Price
All a computer knows is if a particular bit is up or down.
Christian Scott
Yeah. This.
Basically, a Boolean feeds a computer a number that represents a value that the user would perceive as true or false.
It tells the computer that if *statement user provided* is equal to a state of -1, it's false, or a state of 1, it's true.
Henry Ramirez
how do WE know if something is true or false
Dylan Johnson
Inferior to binary.
Isaac Sanders
magnets
Adam Powell
>wanting null pointer exceptions on the level of logic itself
Nathaniel Walker
We told them.
Adrian Collins
Look at the computer like a supercharged abacus. It really is a matter of how the balls are placed, that doesnt mean it know what it represent.
Jacob Nguyen
Wrong
High level potential = true
Low level potential = false
Tyler Roberts
this statement is true
Lucas Fisher
But this is what we base all our ideas of right and wrong on
Eli Jackson
A computer does not concern itself with such pettiness. A computer only concerns itself with comparing numbers. The numbers never lie. They are always the truth.
Ryder Long
No. Wrong.
Aiden Hall
an expression can be true of false
most of the times a more complex formula has to be evaluated to determine this.
the result of the evaluation can be right, meaning that all rules have been followed accordingly
OR
the result can be wrong (e.g. it is true although false would be the correct answer) meaing somebody somehwere FUCKED UP. might be a bug in the code, or the processor.
so you need a _correct_ compiler the gives you the _right_ result which can lead to performance optimizations (e.g. x=false;if(x) ... could dropped because x is always false)
Leo Gray
The computer doesn't care. In fact, it doesn't even think. It's just a rube Goldberg machine.
Nathan Adams
I wish I knew a computer. He sounds like a cool dude.
Anthony Morris
We define it.
Benjamin Martinez
brainlet