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what does bitwise OR mean?
$ man bitwise
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Bitwise OR is a binary operation that takes two equal-length binary representations and performs the logical OR operation on each pair of corresponding bits. The result in each position is 1 if the first bit is 1 or the second bit is 1 or both, otherwise it is 0.
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