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Re:The beauty of bitwise AND by _RPM on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:03PM (#12226947)
The image seems to be doing b1 ^ b2 (which would be a XOR), but the result is the result of & (AND)
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Re:The beauty of bitwise AND by coinomega on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:11PM (#12227002)
∧ is also the notation for bitwise AND

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/fips-180-4....

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Re:The beauty of bitwise AND by _RPM on Thursday August 04, 2016 @01:15PM (#12227030)
Ahh. Okay. I'm just assuming that they would do these computations using a C like language.
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