Gender is not a boolean value, it's a variable.
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And liable to type conversion errors and precision loss.
Jesus, why'd you have to bring floating point and machine precision into the conversation? Now I won't sleep. And the nightmares will be worse than before.
A boolean variable?
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We may have discovered gender entropy, Shannon would be proud
0100100100100111011011010010000001100001001000000111001001101111011000100110111101110100001000000110000101110100011101000111001001100001011000110111010001100101011001000010000001110100011011110010000001101101011000010110011101101110011001010111010001110011
There are 2⁶⁴ genders
No Y = 0
Presence of Y = 1
Looks like you can express it with binary if you want, though you would need an interpreter
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