Javascript - Operator Bitwise XOR

Introduction

The bitwise XOR operator is ^ and works on two values.

Here is the truth table for bitwise XOR:

Bit From First Number	Bit From Second Number	Result
1	1	0
1	0	1
0	1	1
0	0	0

Bitwise XOR returns 1 only when exactly one bit has a value of 1. If both bits contain 1, it returns 0.

The following code uses XOR on the numbers 25 and 3:

var result = 25 ^ 3; 
console.log(result);    //26

Here is how it worked.

25 = 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 1001 
 3 = 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0011 
--------------------------------------------- 
XOR = 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 1010

Javascript - Operator Bitwise XOR

Introduction

Here is how it worked.

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