Bit Manipulation

1. Bitwise Operators

• & - bitwise AND takes two numbers as operands and does AND on every bit of two numbers. The result of AND is 1 only if both bits are 1.

• | - bitwise OR takes two numbers as operands and does OR on every bit of two numbers. The result of OR is 1 if any of the two bits is 1.

• ^ - bitwise XOR takes two numbers as operands and does XOR on every bit of two numbers. The result of XOR is 1 if the two bits are different.

• ~ - bitwise NOT takes one number and inverts all bits of it

• << - left shift operator. The left operands value is moved left by the number of bits specified by the right operand.

• >> - right shift operator. The left operands value is moved right by the number of bits specified by the right operand.

bitwise operators in cpp