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Happy Birthday to Boole, with 11001000 binary candles

The widespread use of the binary digits 1 and 0 in computer information processing is one of the legacies of investigations into the mathematical representation of logic by the English mathematician George Boole, who was born 200 years ago November 2.

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By Tom Siegfried

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