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Tell me the truth ... (piefed.jeena.net)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

A boolean value only needs 1 bit (on or off) for true or false. However the smallest bit of addressable memory is a byte (8 bits) hence 7 are technically wasted.

For low memory devices you could instead store 8 different Boolean values in one single byte by using bit masking instead