What is the bitwise OR operation?
30 July 2023 (Updated 30 July 2023)
In a nutshell
The bitwise OR operation takes two-bit patterns of equal length and performs the logical inclusive OR operation on each pair of corresponding bits.
The result in each position is 0 if both bits are 0. Otherwise, the result is 1.
0101 (decimal 5)
OR 0011 (decimal 3)
= 0111 (decimal 7)
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