text: Typically, the addition operator
  (+) is used to add two numbers, but to improve the time complexity of the operation, bitwise operators are a suitable alternative.
  The sum of two numbers can be obtained by performing the
  XOR (^) operation on these numbers and adding a carry bit that is obtained by performing the
  AND (&) operation.
  For example, if
  x and
  y are the numbers to be added, you can calculate
  (x & y) << 1 and add the result to
  x ^ y to get the desired sum. This concept is known as the half adder.
  The flowchart below demonstrates the same example.
  The code to find the sum of two numbers without the addition operator in Python is shown below.
  def Add(x, y): while (y != 0): carry = x & y x = x ^ y y = carry << 1 return x print(Add(27,5))
  The code above performs the following actions:
  In line 2, a
  while loop iterates until there is no carry bit left.
  In line 3, the carry bit is obtained through the bitwise
  AND (&) of the given numbers.
  Line 4 calculates the sum through the bitwise
  XOR (^) of the two numbers.
  In line 5, the code shifts the
  carry variable by one so that adding it to
  x gives the required sum.
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