The beauty of bitwise AND

Re:The beauty of bitwise AND by TTPrograms on Thursday August 04, 2016 @03:08AM (#12223923)

AND is vector entry-wise multiplication (hadamard product) with boolean entries, not just multiplication in base 2. Multiplication between numbers is not affected by base - base just defines how the number is written down.

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Re:The beauty of bitwise AND by tr352 on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:17PM (#12228146)

It's multiplication in the sense that for two base-2 numbers A and B, A & B is the same as A * B, but I get your point.

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Re:The beauty of bitwise AND by jonsen on Thursday August 04, 2016 @04:54PM (#12228402)

For two bits AND is multiply, not for two numbers in general, regardless of base.

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