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submitted 1 year ago by dosuser123456@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All right for a meme, but if you come to me, in person, and pronounce it [Boo-leen], I will hit you.

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[–] magikmw@piefed.social 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

How to avoid being hit in your presence then?

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[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

The man was called Boole (/buːl/; [BOOL]), so the value is a Boole-an (/'buːliən/; [BOOL-eeən]), as in Newtonian.

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[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago

oh yeah? how come it isn't spelled Booleian then? 😏

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