What does a bitwise exclusive OR do in Java?

Question

Given:

public class Spock {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Long tail = 2000L;
        Long distance = 1999L;
        Long story = 1000L         


        

Answer 1

From http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-15.html#jls-15.22.2

For ^, the result value is true if the operand values are different; otherwise, the result is false.