design choices, bitwise operations do commonly use less power because of the reduced use of resources.

Bitwise operators

In the explanations below, any indication of a bit's position is counted from the right (least significant) side, advancing left. For example, the binary value 0001 (decimal 1) has zeroes at every position but the first (i.e., the rightmost) one.

NOT

The bitwise NOT, or bitwise complement, is a unary operation that performs logical negation

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