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Bool'e•an al'gebra



Pronunciation: (bOO'lē-un), [key]
1. Logic.a deductive logical system, usually applied to classes, in which, under the operations of intersection and symmetric difference, classes are treated as algebraic quantities.
2. Math.a ring with a multiplicative identity in which every element is an idempotent.

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BooleBoolean operation
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