When to use Bitwise Operators during webdevelopment?

Question

Although I grasp the concept of Bitwise Operators, I can\'t say that I have come across many use cases during the webdevelopment process at which I had to resort to using Bi

Answer 1

I think bitwise operators are very strong if used intelligently.

Suppose you have a "Online Store". And some of your items fall in more that one Categories.

Either you have to Create a Many-to-Many relation. Or you can give your Categories an extra Binary-ID and in your product just store the Bitwise combinition of Categories-IDs

I think in few line I can't explain in detail. SORRY