To address the subject, & is the bitwise AND operator and >> is the bitwise shift. & is used as a mask and >> is used to access higher bits. Wikipedia explains bitwise operations. If you don't know about them, you may want to read the article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwise_operation
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