title: What are the | and ^ operators used for?
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    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/276706/what-are-bitwise-operators">What are bitwise operators?</a>  </p>
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  <p>Recently I came across a few samples that used the | and ^ operator. I am guessing these are  <code>or</code> and <code>negation</code> operators.</p>
  
  <p>So what actually do these operators stands for?</p>