(A bit of a tangent from crypto 101)
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Core contepts:
- Bitwise operators work on bits.
- Bits are used to express data in binary form.
- Bits can have a value of either 1 (ie TRUE) or 0 (ie FALSE).
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Higher-level language constructs like floats and strings can all be represented as a series of bytes
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1 byte = 8 bits