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1. How do you set, clear and toggle a single bit in JavaScript?    stackoverflow.com

How to set, clear, toggle and check a bit in JavaScript?

2. Number of bits in Javascript numbers    stackoverflow.com

I work in Javascript with integer numbers only (mainly adding numbers and shifting them). I wonder how big they can be without loosing any bits. For example, how big X can ...

3. Number of bits to represent a number    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to write a function to return the number of bits a positive integer less that the Javascript limit of (2^53)-1 is. However im being hit by precision problems, and ...

4. Javascript Question: How to Convert Hexadecimal Number to High and Low 32-bit values    stackoverflow.com

I need a few lines of Javascript code that will take a hexadecimal number (in the form of a 16 character string) and convert it to two variables representing the high ...

5. How to find the 32-bit of a number    stackoverflow.com

Can I ask how to find the 32-bit version of a number as I want to work around with numbers with the bitwise AND operator in JavaScript. It stated that the ...

6. Javascript bit shift- number wraps?    stackoverflow.com

I am converting some Java code to Javascript to run on node.js, and I ran into something peculiar with bit shifting. The original Java used a long and logical bit shifting, so ...

7. Using bitwise OR 0 to floor a number    stackoverflow.com

A colleague of mine stumbled upon a method to floor float numbers using a bitwise or:

var a = 13.6 | 0; //a == 13