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Bitwise operator for simply flipping all bits in an integer?

I have to flip all bits in a binary representation of an integer. Given: 10101 The output should be 01010 What is …

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How to extract specific bits from a number in C?

I need to extract specific part (no of bits) of a short data type in C. For Example I have …

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Check value of least significant bit (LSB) and most significant bit (MSB) in C/C++

I need to check the value of the least significant bit (LSB) and most significant bit (MSB) of an integer …

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Really 1 KB (KiloByte) equals 1024 bytes?

Until now I believed that 1024 bytes equals 1 KB (kilobyte) but I was reading on the internet about decimal and binary …

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C/C++: Force Bit Field Order and Alignment

I read that the order of bit fields within a struct is platform specific. What about if I use different …

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How to make bit wise XOR in C

I'm trying to get into C programming, and I'm having trouble writing a bitwise XOR function with only ~ and & …

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How to create an array of bits in Python?

How can I declare a bit array of a very large size, say 6 million bits?

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What does "real*8" mean?

The manual of a program written in Fortran 90 says, "All real variables and parameters are specified in 64-bit precision (i.…

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How to use high and low bytes?

I am trying to represent 32768 using 2 bytes. For the high byte, do I use the same values as the low …

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Divide by 10 using bit shifts?

Is it possible to divide an unsigned integer by 10 by using pure bit shifts, addition, subtraction and maybe multiply? Using …

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