Good Question ,eagerly waiting for some good explanation to this one !!!
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Mad Coder imamadco...@gmail.com wrote:
The following is a simple C program which tries to multiply an integer by
5 using the bitwise operations. But it doesn't do so. Explain the reason
one left shift is equivalent to multiplying with 2.Two left is equivalent
to multiplying with 2^2. and so on. so i left shift means multiplying with
2^i.
In your program you did left shift with 2.so it is equivalent to
multiplying with 4. so when input is 1 function will return 4*1+1=5. when
