Bitwise Operators

• This is one of those things you'll likely find on the Sun Java Certification exams.
• The operators compare each bit of the left side operator with each bit of the right side opeartor.
(XOR, NOT corrected 1/23/2002)
• & and: returns '1' where both operators are '1'
• | or: returns '1' where either operators is a '1'
• ^ xor (exclusive or): When one, and only one, of the expressions has a 1 in a digit, the result has a 1 in that digit. Otherwise, the result has a 0 in that digit.
• ~ not: returns '1' where both operators are '0'.
• These operators shift the bits on the left of the operator by the number on the right of the operator.
• << left shift
• >> right shift
• >>> right shift, zero fill.
• Thank goodness that's over.


 Mathematical Functions, Constants

Created by:  Brandan Jones January 4, 2002