Bitwise Operator

~ Bitwise complement

& Bitwise AND

| Bitwise OR

^ Bitwise exclusive OR

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>> Bitwise right shift

• Bitwise operators work on the binary bits. In particular, bitwise complement, AND, OR, exclusive OR operate on all the bits of a word independently.

0110 first number

1010 second number

Bitwise AND 0010 result of bitwise AND

That is 6 & 10 gets 2.

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