What is the second meaning of a single ampersand in C#?

Question

I have used the single ampersand (&) in C# to mean \"check the second conditional statement even if the first is false\".

But the

Answer 1

A single & is "Bitwise AND operator", just like dove said. I'm looking at second part of question: "why it works?"

Think in binary:

 000 = 0
 001 = 1
 010 = 2
 011 = 3
 100 = 4
 101 = 5
 110 = 6
 111 = 7
 and so on

Note all even numbers ends with 0; so if last bit bitwise check against 1 returns zero (meaning "doesn't match"), its a even number;