Unfamiliar characters used in JavaScript encryption script

Question

Here is an excerpt from a JS encryption script that I am studying.

function permutationGenerator(nNumElements) {
    this.nNumElements     = nNumElements;
           


        

Answer 1

Left shift 8 bits and bitwise OR with j.

<< is the left shift operator. Shifts the bits in the variable left the number of positions indicated.

>> is the right shift operator. Shifts the bits in the variable right the number of position indicated.

| is the bitwise OR operator. Performs a logical OR on each bit in the two operands.

& is the bitwise AND operator. Performs a logical AND on each bit in the two operands.

Answer 2

<< is a bitwise left shift. >> is a bitwise right shift. | is a bitwise OR. & is a bitwise AND. Please see this reference for more information.

Answer 3

| = bitwise or

1010
0100
----
1110

& = bitwise and

1011
0110
----
0010

so it's the same as && and || just with the single bits

<< is left shift, so

0110 << 2 shifts the numbers left by two positions, yielding 011000 another way to think of this is multiplication by two, so x<<1 == x*2, x<<2 == x*2*2 and so on, so it's x * Math.pow(2,n) for x<

>> 

is the opposite, so 0110 >> 2 ---> 0001 you can think of it as division by two, BUT with rounding down, so it equals

Math.floor(x/Math.pow(2,n))