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::::: The complement is not required for Boolean lattice or Boolean ring, but it is required for Boolean ''Algebra'', see the same page you linked. It's besides the point anyway, the two value system is so well established that it's hard not to think of it when "boolean" is mentioned. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 19:55, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
:::::: Quoting that page: <lang English>There are at least four different and incompatible systems of notation for Boolean rings and algebras. ... The old terminology was to use ... "Boolean algebra" to mean a Boolean ring with an identity.</lang> --
::: As to Shannon "dumbing it down" (I guess you'd rather put it this way) to two values, again, since it's about decisions, making the results always "yes" or "no" is at least practical.
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