Boolean operators vs Bitwise operators

Question

I am confused as to when I should use Boolean vs bitwise operators

• and vs &
• or vs |

Answer 1

Here's a further difference, which had me puzzled for a while just now: because & (and other bitwise operators) have a higher precedence than and (and other boolean operators) the following expressions evaluate to different values:

0 < 1 & 0 < 2

versus

0 < 1 and 0 < 2

To wit, the first yields False as it is equivalent to 0 < (1 & 0) < 2, hence 0 < 0 < 2, hence 0 < 0 and 0 < 2.