What does bitwise XOR (exclusive OR) mean?

Question

I\'m trying to understand the binary operators in C# or in general, in particular ^ - exclusive or.

For example:

Given an array of positive intege

Answer 1

To see how it works, first you need to write both operands in binary, because bitwise operations work on individual bits.

Then you can apply the truth table for your particular operator. It acts on each pair of bits having the same position in the two operands (the same place value). So the leftmost bit (MSB) of A is combined with the MSB of B to produce the MSB of the result.

Example: 2^10:

    0010 2
XOR 1010 8 + 2
    ----
    1    xor(0, 1)
     0   xor(0, 0)
      0  xor(1, 1)
       0 xor(0, 0)
    ----
 =  1000 8

And the result is 8.