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A boolean data type has two possible truth values, usually represented as true or false. It is named after George Boole, who first defined an algebraic system of logic in the mid 19th century (REF). Boolean functions can be used to perform logical operations in computer programming, such as in conditional statements, loops, and branching, to compare input values with a set of rules to determine the output.

This is a collection of common boolean functions. It includes the basic gates not, and, or, xor; their complements nand, nor, xnor; and 2 propositional logic (taught in discrete mathematics) gates imply, eq; and their complements nimply, neq. There is also a multiplexer, called select, and a true counter, called count. count can help you make custom gates, such as an alternate concept of xnor which returns true only if all inputs are the same (standard xnor returns true if even inputs are true). These gates can handle up to eight inputs.

The parse function is influenced by (boolean) package, and is quite good at translating string to boolean. It can also handle double negatives, eg. not inactive. You know the and of 2-inputs, but what of 1-input? What of 0? And what of the other gates? I answer them here.

This package is available in Node.js and Web formats. To use it on the web, simply use the extra_boolean global variable after loading with a <script> tag from the jsDelivr CDN.

Stability: Experimental.

const xboolean = require('extra-boolean');
// import * as xboolean from "extra-boolean";
// import * as xboolean from "https://unpkg.com/extra-boolean/index.mjs"; (deno)

xboolean.parse('1');
xboolean.parse('not off');
xboolean.parse('truthy');
// → true

xboolean.parse('not true');
xboolean.parse('inactive');
xboolean.parse('disabled');
// → false

xboolean.imply(true, false);
// → false

xboolean.eq(false, false);
// → true

xboolean.xor(true, true, true);
// → true

xboolean.select(1, true, false, true);
// → false                ^

xboolean.count(true, false, true);
// → 2         ^            ^

Index

| Property | Description | | ---- | ---- | | is | Check if a value is boolean. | | parse | Convert a string to boolean. | | | | | not | Check if a boolean is false. | | imply | Check if antecedent ⇒ consequent. | | nimply | Check if antecedent ⇏ consequent. | | eq | Check if antecedent ⇔ consequent. | | neq | Check if antecedent ⇎ consequent. | | | | | and | Check if all booleans are true. | | nand | Check if any boolean is false. | | or | Check if any boolean is true. | | nor | Check if all booleans are false. | | xor | Check if odd number of booleans are true. | | xnor | Check if even number of booleans are true. | | | | | count | Count number of true booleans. | | select | Check if iᵗʰ boolean is true. |

References

• boolean package : Golo Roden and contributors
• MDN Web docs