# Why Bool is a Number?

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-bool-is-a-number/41845
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [June 22, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-bool-is-a-number/41845 "2020-06-22T07:29:05Z")
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### Author: ![bernhard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bernhard/32/2619_2.png) [@bernhard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bernhard)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2020, 8:11am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-bool-is-a-number/41845/2 "2020-06-22T08:11:42Z")

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I found some related discussion here

> [@Why is Bool an Integer?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/why-is-bool-an-integer/17237):
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> I just realized that Bool is a subtype of Integer… why? When I have a function that takes an Integer value I don’t expect to get dispatched with true or false value… That’s very C-like but makes no logical sense to me otherwise…

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