# Quick simple example of the problem I'm running into. Is there something I'm missi

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**Created:** [February 9, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/quick-simple-example-of-the-problem-im-running-into-is-there-something-im-missi/54945 "2021-02-09T17:48:42Z")\
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Quick simple example of the problem I’m running into. Is there something I’m missing on how to do this? I have more than 2 conditions for my thing and I want a bit array returned based on different arrays.

```julia
julia&gt; [1.0, 1.5] .&lt;= 2 &amp;&amp; [2.0, 2.5] .&lt;= 3
ERROR: TypeError: non-boolean (BitArray{1}) used in boolean context
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope at REPL[25]:1

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You probably want bitwise with broadcasting:

```julia
julia> ([1.0,1.5] .<= 2) .& ([2.0,2.5] .<= 3)
2-element BitArray{1}:
 1
 1

```

The error message says your operands are `BitArray`s (bitwise arrays), and “boolean context” refers to `&&` which operates on booleans not bits. Bitwise means you should use `&`, and array means you should broadcast with `.`.

The error messages can be confusing, but they can often be decoded. If you do `? &&` or `? &` in REPL, the docstrings say boolean and bitwise, respectively.