I have read/looked through like 2 books and 1 online guide about "bitwise operators" such as >> and <<... I just can't express the amount of confusion I have towards these operators xD.
Example:
Quote:
The bitwise AND operator & is often used to mask off some set of bits, for example
n = n & 0177;
sets to zero all but the low-order 7 bits of n.
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I just don't get it... I mean... What's the low-order part of bits? And this works for all these "bitwise" operators, I just don't get them xD.
So if someone could explain them more in-depth, more importantly how they are used and what the outcome becomes
, that would be great ^_^.
-- Them being the commands like >>, &, << and |.