Doubt In Boolean Section?

#1

How Can it ideally require 1 bit , if say for example 5 it requires 3 bits to store and why are non zero values true ?

#2

hey @AnshBajpai, a int value will take 32 bits or 64 bits depending upon system or compiler, i.e. 2 bytes or 4 bytes.

1 byte=8 bits.
Latest compiler consider int as 4 bytes too.

#3

No, I mean that in the section where we are taught about boolean, the instructor mentions that only 1 bit Is required to store it but compiler provides a minimum allocation of 1 byte. So does boolean mean only 0 and 1 or even other non zero numbers. If it does then say 5 =101 which is 3 bits, I completely get the idea that it store in a bigger bucket. But then how only one bit is required to store it

#4

hey @AnshBajpai, all non zero numbers are true, even negative number are also gives true.Only zero consitute to false.

#5

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