-=> Quoting David Williams to Bill White <=-
 DW> I suspect there are a lot of people in this conference, many of them
 DW> quite competent programmers, who neither know nor care about the
 DW> Boolean AND function! It exists, but it isn't usually *thought of* as a
 DW> very important aspect of BASIC.
  
It can really streamline your code at times. I love to use it when
testing for even or odd numbers, for example:
IF Number% AND 1 THEN 'odd
is much nicer than
IF Number% \ 2  Number% / 2 THEN
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