I was playing with JavaScript's bit manipulation where i tried "and operation" with various numbers and every time got binary result but for few numbers i am always getting weird decimal number.
10100 & 1000 = 864
864 why?
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1`&&` is logical operator, `&` is bitwise operator – ponury-kostek Dec 19 '18 at 14:10
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510100 and 1000 are decimal. To force treating them as binary you need to use binary prefix like `0b10100 & 0b1000` – Andrey Dec 19 '18 at 14:13
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Thanks... 0b would yield right result. – Vikas Dec 19 '18 at 14:21
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Possible duplicate of [What does this symbol mean in JavaScript?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9549780/what-does-this-symbol-mean-in-javascript) – AShelly Dec 19 '18 at 18:14
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&& is logical operator, & is bitwise logical operator
decimal | binary
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10100 = 10011101110100
1000 = 1111101000
&
864 = 1101100000
As @Andrey mention, if you want to force binary notation use 0b prefix
0b10100 and 0b1000
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