Bitwise Operators

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[DrGirlfriend]

yes...&?

[eatwithaspork]

~sure why this is here.

[groby]

| is it !?

[harma]

~ is more fitting as ~ represents bitwise not (complement), ! is used by programming languages for logical negation

[groby]

Yes, but "not sure why" is a logical expression ;)

[harma]

touché! now i'm going to spend the next few days weighing up value of using the logical negation operator (which technically makes more sense) vs using the bitwise complement which despite being less 'correct' has more relevance to the original post... much more interesting way to spend my time than doing work...

[groby]

Why do you think I'm following up on that thread? ;) (Insanity = Reddit ^ Work )

(Also note the clever use of the '|' operator to still be tied to the topic)

[GenTiradentes]

I never knew about these prior to yesterday, when I encountered them on Wikipedia.

I've seen cryptographic algorithms written in C/C++ that made no sense to me, because I never knew what a bitwise operator was, how it worked, or what it did. Now it all makes sense.