Ruby - Bitwise AND operator
The Bitwise AND operator (&) is a binary operator which takes two bit patterns of equal length and performs the logical AND operation on each pair of corresponding bits. It returns 1 if both bits at the same position are 1, else returns 0.
Bit_1 | Bit_2 | Bit_1 & Bit_2 |
---|---|---|
0 | 0 | 0 |
1 | 0 | 0 |
0 | 1 | 0 |
1 | 1 | 1 |
The example below describes how bitwise AND operator works:
50 & 25 returns 16 50 -> 110010 (In Binary) & 25 -> & 011001 (In Binary) ---- -------- 16 <- 010000 (In Binary)
The code of using Bitwise AND operator (&) is given below:
x = 50 y = 25 #Bitwise AND operation z = x & y #Displaying the result puts "z = #{z}"
The output of the above code will be:
z = 16
Example: Check if a number is even or odd
The last bit of an even number is always 0, whereas for an odd number the last bit is always 1. Therefore, for a given number n, (n & 1) returns 0 if the n is even, else returns 1.
Even Number: 50 -> 110010 (In Binary) & 1 -> & 000001 (In Binary) ---- -------- 0 <- 000000 Odd Number: 99 -> 1100011 (In Binary) & 1 -> & 0000001 (In Binary) ---- --------- 1 <- 0000001
The below code checks whether a given number is even or odd:
def CheckEven(myNum) if ((myNum & 1) == 1) puts "#{myNum} is an odd number." else puts "#{myNum} is an even number." end end CheckEven(50) CheckEven(99)
The above code will give the following output:
50 is an even number. 99 is an odd number.
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