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| ☜ | Truth-Value InterpretationAnnotations | ☞ | ||||
Introduced in the 1977 ANSI M[UMPS] language standard.
This metalanguage symbol represents the truth value interpretation of an expression. In order to produce the truth value interpretation of an expression, first the expression is evaluated, and then reduced to its canonical numeric representation; after this, if the numeric value is nonzero, it is replaced by 1.
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| 123 | 1 |
| "apples" | 0 |
| "25 apples" | 1 |
| "seven apples" | 0 |
| 5.23 | 1 |
| -5.23 | 1 |
| 1.7 | 1 |
| -1.7 | 1 |
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Copyright © Examples: 1995-2024 Ed de Moel;
Copyright © Annotations: 2003-2008 Jacquard Systems Research
Copyright © Annotations: 2008-2024 Ed de Moel.
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This page most recently updated on 12-Sep-2014, 13:12:24.
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