Bitwise AND, OR and XOR

Bitwise AND

The bitwise AND operation resembles the logical AND. The result of the logical AND is true when both operands are true. Any other operands lead to the false result.

The bitwise AND operates on numbers instead of boolean expressions. These are steps to perform the bitwise AND manually:

1. Represent the numbers in the two’s complement.

2. If one number has fewer bits than another, add zeros to its left side.

3. Take the bits of the numbers in the same position and apply the logical AND for them. ...