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Boolean

A Boolean value is a truth value and can be used as a condition.

Related concepts:  ValueTypeConditional

Closest Wikipedia entry:  Boolean data type

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nLab - Section Boolean algebra

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CompareBooleanToConstant
To test whether an expression evaluates to true or false, one must compare it to a constant

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