Bitwise Operations and Combinatorial Applications

Bitwise operations represent a powerful method of programming with the languages C/C++ and Java. They allow one to directly operate with every bit of an arbitrary variable situated in a computer¿s memory. Unfortunately, comparatively few interesting examples can be found in the literature where it is convenient to take bitwise operators. This book corrects this lacuna, and presents meaningful examples of programming tasks where the use of bitwise operations is appropriate in order to increase the effectiveness of algorithms.