What are bitwise operators?

Question

I\'m someone who writes code just for fun and haven\'t really delved into it in either an academic or professional setting, so stuff like these bitwise operators really esca

Answer 1

To break it down a bit more, it has a lot to do with the binary representation of the value in question.

For example (in decimal):
x = 8
y = 1

would come out to (in binary):
x = 1000
y = 0001

From there, you can do computational operations such as 'and' or 'or'; in this case:
x | y = 
1000 
0001 |
------
1001

or...9 in decimal

Hope this helps.