XOR of two short integers

Question

I am calculating XOR of two short integers using XOR ^ operator in a traditional fashion. Below is the method-

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Answer 1

It's not really clear what you mean by "convert each short integer to binary number" - a short is already a number, and its representation is naturally binary anyway.

You just want:

short x = ...;
short y = ...;
short z = (short) (x ^ y);

You need the cast as x ^ y will promote both to int, and the result will be an int. However, the result will have to be in the range of a short anyway, so it's safe to perform this cast without losing information.

See section 15.22.1 of the JLS for more information about XOR in particular and section 5.6.2 for information on binary numeric promotion in general.