Bitwise refers to a bitwise operation which operates on one or more bit patterns or binary numerals at the level of their individual bits.
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A program that guesses your number using bitwise operations C++
I got the idea of this program by this site :
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/blue/Cards.shtml
I made the program using 4 files.
functions.cpp :
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Adding bits, simpler
Considering that two bitsets are provided in the form of strings, char a[] and char b[], as in the code below. And the task of ...
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Endianness conversion in C
I have written a simple C header for converting the endianness of short integers and long integers. It uses the GCC macro ...
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Find the Sum of Digit XOR till N?
The question is to find the sum of Digit XOR till \$N\$.
For eg:-
Digit XOR of a number 112
112 => 1 xor 1 xor 2 = 2
So we need to find
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Implementation of C Standard Library Function ntohl()
This is an implementation of ntohl() that I wrote as an exercise. ntohl() takes a uint32_t ...
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Count bits in VBScript
I'm trying to write a function that returns the number of bits set in a 32-bit integer in VBScript, it's just for practising the language. The function I've written so far looks okay, but I'm ...
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Calculating CRC using arbitrary polynomials
This is my implementation of calculating CRCs which supports arbitrary polynomials specified in different representations (according to the explanations given here and here).
My concerns are:
I don'...
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Decoding 32-bit MIPS instructions
For a homework assignment I've been given the task of parsing out information from an 32-bit MIPS instruction. (For more information on the instruction formats, see here). The instructor has provided ...
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Compute the XOR of all the elements in the upper left triangular of a square matrix
Given a dimension \$D\$. We generate a \$D\times D\$ matrix with elements that start from \$0\$. For example, if we're given a dimension \$4\$ this is what our matrix looks like:
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\begin{bmatrix}...
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Hackerrank Sum vs XoR
I'm in the process of improving my coding style and performance hence I decided to delve into bit manipulation on Hackerrank. I thought the question was straight forward but on large input, my ...
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Using bitwise operators with (unsigned long) instead of bitfields
Here is my solution to Programming Exercise 15-7 from Stephen Prata's C Primer Plus, 6th Edition. This problem asks the reader to:
15-7
Write a program with the same behavior as described in ...
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Counting the number of “on” bits in an int
Here is some code I wrote as a solution to Programming Exercise 15.3 in Stephen Prata's C Primer Plus, 6th Edition. It is probably worth pointing out that the title of the chapter is Bit Fiddling. The ...
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K&R 2.6 Exercise setbits(x,p,n,y) function
Write a function setbits(x,p,n,y) that returns x with the n bits that begin at position <...
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Xoring in constant time in Java
I was inspired by this answer and the explanation and decided to support negative numbers. While testing, I noticed that the solution didn't handle the case with one number in the given range. A quick ...
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Print the next smallest and next largest number that have the same number of 1 bits in their binary representation
Given an integer , print the next smallest and next largest number that have the same number of 1 bits in their binary representation.
How can I improve this?
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Maximize result of bitwise AND
This was the problem from "30 Days of Code" on Hackerrank:
Given set \$S = \lbrace{1,2,3,\dots,N}\rbrace\$, find two integers \$A\$ and \$B\$ (where \$A \lt B\$), from set \$S\$ such that the ...
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Getting TLE for SPOJ Bitplay challenge program
I have tried a naive way to solve this problem:
Given a even number N (N ≤ 109) and an integer K, you have to find the greatest odd number M less than N such that the sum of digits in binary ...
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Binary permissions system with bitwise operators + properties
I've written a simple permissions system that I need to be rather fast, yet useable by other developers who primarily use Java. Is a bitwise permissions system with properties a good compromise. Any ...
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Return the next power of two
Given an unsigned integer \$N\$, I want to return \$P\$ with \$P\$ being a power of two such that \$P \ge N\$.
Examples:
1 -> 1
2 -> 2
3 -> 4
5 -> 8
The goal is to provide a very fast ...
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Bit twiddling utils for Int and Long classes
I added some bit twiddling utils to Int and Long classes in Scala but I have highly duplicated code. Is there a way to DRY this?
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Addition of two IEEE754-32bit single precision floating point numbers in C++
I made a C++ program which takes a list of triplets with S.No. from a text file, where the triplet, i.e. a,b,c correspond to a+b=c (addition done using float data type). Now I convert a and b from hex ...
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Start an EventHandler in different Thread
I just stumbeled accross some code and I would do it in a different way. Since I am quite new to programming, I just wanted to know if I understand it right.
Original Code:
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ANDing ints in Java [closed]
Is there any better way than doing:
if ((newState & InputState.DEFAULT) == InputState.DEFAULT)
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My InputState.class defines static int variables to the ...
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Codility binary gap solution using regex
This is how I solved the binary gap problem:
Find longest sequence of zeros, bounded by ones, in binary representation of an integer.
However, it seems to be different from the answers out there. Is ...
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K&R 2-7 - Invert a bitfield from a number
This is my solution to the Exercise 2-7 of K&R C book. The assignment is:
Write a function invert(x,p,n) that returns x ...
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Implementing checksum add without carry in C
I need to write a function in C which performs a checksum using the rule "add without carry". As I understand it, the "add without carry" concept is equivalent to the bitxor operator and given that ...
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Bit shifting and masking
I was wondering if someone could review this simple bit of code that originally was in C++, but now converted to C# as practice in using bit-shifting and creating a sort of a quasi-array functionality....
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A simple assembly program to count the number of ones in a register
I made a simple assembly program to count the number of ones in a register. Since this is basically my first ever, I would like to hear what I can improve or if there are some major flaws in this one:
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Packing and unpacking bits (2)
Part 1 here.
I improved my code from my previous question (linked above).
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Packing and unpacking bits
Part 2 here.
I wrote this class for packing data.
Would it benefit from being named BitPacker rather than BitStream (and change write/read to pack/unpack), or it works as is?
How can I improve it? ...
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Using JavaScript-bitwise AND and -bitwise NOT for setting a number to 0
Obviously is the XOR-operator is used in low-level programming-languages used a lot for setting a value back to all bits 0.
For example:
11010 ^ 11010 => 00000
Brought my teacher to figuring a out ...
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Bit string builder for Java
I have this Java class for building bit strings. The set of methods it provides resembles that of java.lang.StringBuilder.
See what I have:
BitStringBuilder.java:
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LEB128 in Haskell
I have implemented the LEB128 encoding for unsigned integers. I'm fairly new to Haskell so I have some doubt about the coding style I'm using, particularly the definition of ...
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Convert tri-gram of type wchar_t to an integer type
I am trying to convert a tri-gram containing 3 characters of type wchar_t to an integer type (an uint64_t at the present time).
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Calculating the 'binary gap' of a number
Inspired by this question and therefore this one I decided that clearly the best most readable way to solve this is with Regular Expressions.
A binary gap within a positive integer N is any maximal ...
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Implement “at” lens for Data.Map
I've been working on adding an operation like Data.Lens.At.at to Data.Map. This uses an extremely fast, extremely small, and ...
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Byte array to floating point such as FPE2 in Java
Apple's System Management Controller uses FPE2 and SP78 as floating-point formats.
While writing a Java library that that interfaces with the SMC, I ported someone's C function to convert read a FPE2-...
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Finding the fastest common prefix of 2 strings in Python
I'm comparing my algorithms, slice_prefix and bit_prefix, with existing ones to find the common prefix length of 2 strings as ...
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A bitwise common prefix algorithm in Python
Is my algorithm slow because it has problems? Or, is any bitwise common prefix solution not going to give me the performance I'm looking for?
After profiling my algorithm, I found that over 60% of ...
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Console app to teach bitwise operators
I'm creating a console app that has the purpose to teach you how to use C# bitwise operators. I have several classes which contain info about the different operators and I instantiate/add them in the ...
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Parsing an IP address (Bit manipulation)
Given a string representing of an IP address, such as "127.43.23.59", return a 32 bit integer representation of this string. The 32 bit integer is separated into four bytes, where each byte is one of ...
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Calculating the results of bit operations
I have a simple program that calculates and outputs the results of all the bit operators. I'm planning to send it to my friend and to explain some stuff about them to him. Before I do that, I want to ...
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Printing longest sequence of zeroes
I am doing a coding exercise in codility and I came across this question:
A binary gap within a positive integer N is any maximal sequence of
consecutive zeros that is surrounded by ones at both ...
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Concatenate three 16-bit integers in one 64-bit integer with C++
I am looking for an elegant alternative of the following code where wordXX contains always 16 bits:
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Portable byte order conversion
I'm trying to improve the portability of a file format converter, specifically to POSIX platforms other than Linux. I'd appreciate a review of the following functions used for converting between ...
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Parallel popcount of packed bytes
I want to do a popcount of bytes in an array.
Not a total popcount of everything, but lots of little popcounts for every individual byte to determine the neighborhood count in GoL.
The following ...
