Bit Manipulation

Working directly on a number's binary representation with AND/OR/XOR/shifts — for O(1) tricks and memory-efficient state.

Read

40 min

Practice MCQs

25

Interview QA

25

Edition

v7

Editorial status

Reviewed

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Scope: Language-neutral, with integer semantics cited from CPython 3.14, java.util as of Java 21, and the C++ standard library.