can't understand this challenge

Question

hi

x = 3
print(x >> 2)

the output is 0
how they got zero!?
thank you

Answer 1

It's a bitshift operation - it acts on binary representations of numbers.
3 is binary 11. If you shift 2 bits rightwise, it goes to 0.

0011 --1-shift-right--> 0001 --another-shift--> 0000

Answer 2

5>>2 is 1. 5>>3 is 0. Once it goes down to 0 it stays there, so 5>>20 is 0 :)

Answer 3

bitshift division works like integer division by powers of 2: that is
x>>1 is equivalent to x//2;
x>>2 is equivalent to x//4;
x>>3 is equivalent to x//8;
...
x>>10 is equivalent to x//(2**10)
and so on...
on the other side
x<<1 is equivalent to x*2;
x<<2 is equivalent to x*4;
x<<3 is equivalent to x*8,
and so on..

hence 3>>2 is 3//4=0
5>>2 means 5//4=1...

Answer 4

@kuba
what if x is equal to 5?

Answer 5

in binary 3 is written as 0011.In program there is x=3 and x>>2 means shift 3 two times right so when u shift this, in binary u will get 0000 in binary which is equal to 0.
if it will be x>>1 then in binary it will be 0001 which is equal to 1.
for more example let us take x=20 in binary 10100, then x>>1 will be 01010 i.e 10 and x>>2 will be 00101 i.e 5 and x>>3 it will be 00010 i.e 2 and so on.
hope u understand.

Answer 6

Its mistake, the output must be 3.