Bitwise operations.

Question

What practical application have bitwise operations?
Give simple examples of practical application, so that you can clearly see that writing code with a bitwise operation is better than any other method.

Answer 1

Vasiliy the best answers are sometimes easier found by searching on a search engine eg Google , Bing , and so on or by checking on stackoverflow if <- we haven't answered it here....

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2096916/real-world-use-cases-of-bitwise-operators

Answer 2

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1847830/?ref=app

Answer 3

You can always search the database of Q&A questions to find a related question first before posting.

Answer 4

Hi.

You can for example store an array of flags in an integer (each bit representing On/Off or True/False)

Hope this helps. Cheers. C

Answer 5

Sonic
Unfortunately I did not find the proper answer in the search engine. 😕

Answer 6

ChrA 🙋
can you give an example in any programming language available to you?

Answer 7

Hey.
I've been on vacations but did some _minimal_ example here.

https://code.sololearn.com/c0eXZWLvitwF/?ref=app

Any comments on the code are more than welcome 😀

Hope this helps. Cheers. C