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what is a bitwise AND operation?
$ echo $((5 & 3))
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The bitwise AND operation compares two numbers bitwise and returns a new number where each bit is 1 only if both bits of the corresponding input numbers are 1. In this example, it would return 1 because binary representation of 5 is 101 and 3 is 011, so bitwise AND results in 001 which is 1 in decimal.
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