In the explanations below, any indication of a bit's position is counted from the right (least significant) side, … See more

The bit shifts are sometimes considered bitwise operations, because they treat a value as a series of bits rather than as a numerical quantity. In these operations, the digits are moved, or shifted, to the left or right. … See more

• popcount, used in cryptography
• count leading zeros See more

Bitwise operations are necessary particularly in lower-level programming such as device drivers, low-level graphics, communications protocol packet assembly, and decoding.
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Sometimes it is useful to simplify complex expressions made up of bitwise operations, for example when writing compilers. The goal of a compiler is to translate a high level programming language into the most efficient … See more

• Arithmetic logic unit
• Bit manipulation
• Bitboard
• Bitwise operations in C
• Double dabble… See more

• Online Bitwise Calculator supports Bitwise AND, OR and XOR
• XORcat, a tool for bitwise-XOR files/streams
• Division using bitshifts… See more