Peter Stuge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 12:34:51PM -0400, Corey Osgood wrote: > >> No. The binary and is kinda weird, if you have, say, 11100011 and >> 01010101, the binary and will give an answer of which bits are the >> same between the two, >> > > Not quite, that's XOR+NOT, exclusive or with inversion. > > The truth table for AND is: > a b y > 0 0 0 > 0 1 0 > 1 0 0 > 1 1 1 > > The result is 1 only when both input bits are 1. The result is 0 > otherwise. > > > >> so 01000001. >> > > This is correct however. > > > 11100011 > & 01010101 > -------- > 01000001 > > (use a fixed width font) > > > //Peter
Thanks, that was a much better explanation than mine. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
