Bitwise Operations & Masking Playground

Visual Playground

Bitwise Operations & Masking

Flipping bits, shifting masks, and learning visual binary algorithms.

Signed Mode:

Operand A

DEC:

HEX:

2^70128

2^6164

2^5032

2^4116

2^318

2^204

2^112

2^001

Operator

Operand B

DEC:

HEX:

2^70128

2^6064

2^5132

2^4116

2^318

2^214

2^102

2^001

Step 0Total -1

Calculation Trace Output

A:01011010
(90)
B (&):00111100
(60)
Result:00000000
(0)

Useful Bit Hacks & Recipes

Check Odd/Even Parityx & 1

Determines if a number is odd or even by inspecting the least significant bit (LSB).

Clear Lowest Set Bitx & (x - 1)

Turns off the rightmost active bit (the lowest 1 bit) of a binary register.

Isolate Lowest Set Bitx & -x

Extracts only the rightmost set bit, zeroing out all other bits.

Check Power of 2(x > 0) && (x & (x - 1)) == 0

Quickly checks if a positive number is an exact power of 2.

XOR Swap TrickA ^ B

Swaps two registers without using a third temporary variable.