> Bitwise operators operate on bits, not bytes. Because computers operate on bytes, and you can't address a bit - you have to modify bytes to accomplish your go

> Bitwise operators operate on bits, not bytes. Because computers operate on bytes, and you can't address a bit - you have to modify bytes to accomplish your goal. I think this may be the fundamental intent I was missing. How do people wrangle these things in their head! Is it ever intuitive, or are even the proficient externally visualising this stuff in some way?