> It also really helps me to visualize binary operations in binary space, not hex or decimal. That's still very confusing to me. Yeah, I think thats a major pa

> It also really helps me to visualize binary operations in binary space, not hex or decimal. That's still very confusing to me. Yeah, I think thats a major part of the problem for me. When im looking at these code snippets (as per ungolfed version of the post in a comment below) applying the operators to integers i just cant understand what it is they are trying to achieve, so I am unable to grok the purpose/intent. Even with the explanations given here im not sure why its doing what its doing - and I dont seem to encounter that issue outside of bitwise operators.