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

It might help to think of it this way. This is how AND (&) works:

It basically says are both of these numbers ones, so if you have two numbers 5 and 3 they will be converted into binary and the computer will think

         5: 00000101
         3: 00000011

are both one: 00000001 0 is false, 1 is true

So the AND of 5 and 3 is one. The OR (|) operator does the same thing except only one of the numbers must be one to output 1, not both.