Bitwise operations in C and other derivative languages can be a bit challenging to visualize and understand if you don't use them very often.
Now, you can use this simple expression calculator to see a visual representation of the bitwise operations to verify your intuition or to learn.
Bitcalc supports all standard C bitwise operators (<<, >>, &, |,
^, and ~) and the basic C arithmetic operators (+, -, *, /, and
%). All of the supported operators follow standard C precedence and
associativity rules. Operator precedence can be changed using parentheses,
as is typically permitted in C.
Bitcalc can be installed easily using pip:
pip install https://github.com/chrisrink10/bitcalc
You can start bitcalc from your console using the bitcalc command.
Simple operations show the bitwise operation in the format typically used by students learning basic arithmetic operations to help clarify what is happening at a bit level.
>>> (1 | 10)
(1 | 10)
00000001
| 00001010
------------
00001011
11
More complex expressions are solved one-by-one in order of precedence for each sub-expression to help make clear how each operand in the final expression was calculated.
>>> (81 & (1 << 3))
(1 << 3)
00000001
<< 3
------------
00001000
(81 & (1 << 3))
01010001
& 00001000
------------
00000000
0
Bitcalc supports arbitrary complex expressions.
>>> (81 & (1 << 3)) | (45 ^ (3 << 2))
(1 << 3)
00000001
<< 3
------------
00001000
(81 & (1 << 3))
01010001
& 00001000
------------
00000000
(3 << 2)
00000011
<< 2
------------
00001100
(45 ^ (3 << 2))
00101101
^ 00001100
------------
00100001
((81 & (1 << 3)) | (45 ^ (3 << 2)))
00000000
| 00100001
------------
00100001
33
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