Top "Bitwise-or" questions

A bitwise OR operation takes two bit patterns of equal length and performs the logical OR operation on each pair of corresponding bits among the operators.

Why is "||" the symbol for or?

I know that || represents the logical operation "or", but I'm curious if anyone knows the history of choosing that symbol. …

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Bitwise (Bitshift) operations on 64-bit integers in C++

I'm trying to deal with bitboards, which requires me to set a particular bit in a 64-bit unsigned integer. To …

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How do I use Java's bitwise operators in Kotlin?

Java has binary-or | and binary-and & operators: int a = 5 | 10; int b = 5 & 10; They do not seem to work in Kotlin: …

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Bitwise Operations on char*

GCC gives error when compiling the code below. The commented two lines instead of the other or and shift lines …

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How does C++ do bitwise "or" operations on negative numbers?

When I give to a variable such value: e = 17|-15; , I get -15 as an answer after compiling.I can't …

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How to reverse a bitwise OR operation?

Here's what I've done: 93 | 199 which returns 223 I understand that this is because 0b1011101 | 0b11000111 is 0b11011111 However, suppose I want …

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(C++) Getting error "Illegal instruction (core dumped)" upon bitwise OR operation

So, I'm still learning about bitwise operations and can't figure out why this error is happening. I've googled it and …

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