Thread: Confused about tutorial coding

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    Confused about tutorial coding

    "What is !(1 && 0)? Of course, it would be TRUE. It is true is because 1 && 0 evaluates to 0 and !0 evaluates to TRUE (ie, 1). "
    This is from the tutorial, ok, first of all how does that make sense What is not 1 and 0?,
    that makes not sense to me because what is it being compared to?
    Help
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    The NOT operator simply returns the inverse.

    If you apply it to true: !true == false.
    If you apply it to false: !false == true

    It's actually quite simple.

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    That was great advice. I suggest you add that explanation to the tutorial.

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    It's just to train you to understand boolean arithmetic. In practice you might be dealing with something like that:
    Code:
        int p = 20;
        if (!(p > 5 && p < 15))
        {
        }
    Looking at the code you see that the first comparison is true (1) and the second is false(0).
    Now, does that if branch get executed?
    I might be wrong.

    Thank you, anon. You sure know how to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.
    Quoted more than 1000 times (I hope).

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