and becomes or and or becomes and

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sun May 22 18:14:15 EDT 2011


On 5/22/2011 5:57 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> Stef Mientki wrote:
>
>> must of us will not use single bits these days,
>> but at first sight, this looks funny :
>>
>>>>> a=2
>>>>> b=6
>>>>> a and b
>> 6
>>>>> a&  b
>> 2
>>>>> a or b
>> 2
>>>>> a | b
>> 6
>
> Change the order of the operands and see what happens.

or change a,b to 1,2


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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