Posts tagged with “bits”

June 25, 2016

Hamming Code

This is a bit of a departure from data structures (which I’m in the middle of), but I wanted to cover Hamming Code and Error Checking since I had just covered bitwise operations. I’m really impressed with this marvel. If you don’t know, Hamming Code is a special way of laying out…

June 24, 2016

Bit Manipulation

Bitwise operations are a very weak spot for me. ANDing, ORing, and XORing (huh?) bits hasn’t really been anything I can say I’ve needed to do, except for one company that used bitfields to save space. And << and >> have had little practical use for me. By the end of the day,…