#Coding in java how to#

#Coding in java how to#

In this article, we learned how to use the bitwise & operator in Java and how the operation is carried out to give us a result. If one of the conditions is true => true.This returns true because one of conditions is true. Here is the syntax: statment1/condition1 || statemnt2/condition2 This means that if both conditions are true, we would get true returned, and if one of both conditions is true, we would also get a value of true returned to us. This operator will only return false when both conditions are false. We use the symbol || to denote the OR operator. If one of the two conditions is false => false.This is because one of the conditions is not true. Here, 2 is not greater than 10 but 8 is greater than 4 – so we get a false returned to us. Here is another example that returns false: ((2 > 10) & (8 > 4)) To better understand the & operator, you should know that both conditions must be true to get a value of true. If either one of the conditions had an untrue logic then we would get false.

The operation will return true because both conditions are true – 10 is greater than 2 and 8 is greater than 4. The operator evaluates the value of both statements/conditions and gives us a result – true or false. Here is what the syntax looks like: statment1/condition1 & statemnt2/condition2Īs you can see above, there are two statements/conditions separated by the operator. It evaluates two statements/conditions and returns true only when both statements/conditions are true. They return either true or false based on the conditions given. Note that we use logical operators to evaluate conditions. The binary value 1000 in base 10 is 8 and that is why our operation returned 8. Now let's combine all the returned characters. We move on to the second characters – 0 for 10 and 1 for 12:įor the third characters – 1 for 10 and 0 for 12:įor the fourth characters – 0 for 10 and 0 for 12: The first character for 10 is 1 and the first character for 12 is also 1 so: Here is something you should have in mind before we start the operation: Let's look at an example to help you understand better: (10 & 12) When the & operator starts its operation, it will evaluate the value of characters in both numbers starting from the left.

The binary result of these numbers will be returned to us in base 10. It evaluates the binary value of given numbers. The symbol & denotes the bitwise AND operator. In this article, we will be talking about the bitwise AND operator, and the AND ( &) and OR ( ||) logical operators. They are divided into various categories like arithmetic operators, assignment operators, comparison operators, logical operators, and so on. We use operators in most programming languages to perform operations on variables.