<< and >> in C++
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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5123674/and-in-c">&lt;&lt; and &gt;&gt; in C++</a>  </p>
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<p>I don't quite understand what this means...I'm just learning C++ from my very very very basic Python experience...and so this may be a very stupid question.  My question is...say you have your classic "Hello World" program and you have the line:</p>

<pre><code>cout&lt;&lt;"Hello World!"&lt;&lt;endl;
</code></pre>

<p>what does the &lt;&lt; mean...because I was just looking at using input in C and saw that you'd do something like: </p>

<pre><code>int i;
cin>>i;
</code></pre>

<p>and I noticed that it has >> instead of &lt;&lt; and I've read that those are bitwise shifts...and I don't exactly understand what those are...but I think it might be different here...Help...Thanks in advance</p>
