Can anyone explain why '>>2' shift means 'divided by 4' in C codes?

Question

I know and understand the result.

For example:

 7 (decimal) = 00000111 (binary) 


and 7 >> 2 = 00000001 (binary) 

        

Answer 1

they do that because shifting is more efficient than actual division. you're just moving all the digits to the right or left, logically multiplying/dividing by 2 per shift

If you're wondering why 7/4 = 1, that's because the rest of the result, (3/4) is truncated off so that it's an interger.