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The bitwise AND operator is a single ampersand: &. It is just a representation of AND which does its work on the bits of the operands rather than the truth value of the operands. Bitwise binary AND performs logical conjunction (shown in the table above) of the bits in each position of a number in its binary form.
In computer programming, a bitwise operation operates on a bit string, a bit array or a binary numeral (considered as a bit string) at the level of its individual bits.It is a fast and simple action, basic to the higher-level arithmetic operations and directly supported by the processor.
A mask is data that is used for bitwise operations, particularly in a bit field. Using a mask, multiple bits in a Byte, nibble, word (etc.) can be set either on, off or inverted from on to off (or vice versa) in a single bitwise operation. More comprehensive applications of masking, when applied conditionally to operations, are termed predication.
In the sample at right, black pixels have the all-zero bits and white pixels have the all-one bits. At run time, to put the image on the screen over the background, the program first masks the screen pixel's bits with the image mask at the desired coordinates using the bitwise AND operation. This preserves the background pixels of the ...
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Exclusive disjunction is often used for bitwise operations. Examples: 1 XOR 1 = 0; 1 XOR 0 = 1;
To give an example that explains the difference between "classic" tries and bitwise tries: For numbers as keys, the alphabet for a trie could consist of the symbols '0' .. '9' to represent digits of a number in the decimal system and the nodes would have up to 10 possible children. A trie with the keys "07" and "42".
Logical conjunction is often used for bitwise operations, where 0 corresponds to false and 1 to true: 0 AND 0 = 0, 0 AND 1 = 0, 1 AND 0 = 0, 1 AND 1 = 1. The operation can also be applied to two binary words viewed as bitstrings of equal length, by taking the bitwise AND of each pair of bits at corresponding positions. For example:
and | are bitwise operators that occur in many programming languages. The major difference is that bitwise operations operate on the individual bits of a binary numeral, whereas conditional operators operate on logical operations. Additionally, expressions before and after a bitwise operator are always evaluated.