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On 13 Jul 2012 15:04:21 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Actually, no. Is True less than False, or is it greater? In boolean 
> algebra, the question has no answer. It is only an implementation detail 
> of Python that chooses False < True.
>
	And for the real fun... VMS F77 (if not the VAX/Alpha architecture
itself) basically used lsb making 1, 3, 5... True; and 0, 2, 4... False
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