Use of right shift and left shift operator in Java!

Left Shift "<<"

The left shift "<<" shifts the highest order bit to the right for number of times the user specified.

Syntax

value << position 

The value is increased with the double effect according to the value of the position specified.

Example

int value = 10;
int position = 2;

int result = value << position;

So the final value that will be stored in the result variable will be 40.(10,20,40)

Right shift ">>"

The right shift ">>" shifts the lowest order bit to the left for number of times the user specified.

Syntax

value >> position 

The value is decrease with the double effect according to the value of the position specified.

Example

int value = 10;
int position = 2;

int result = value >> position;

So the final value that will be stored in the result variable will be 2.(10,5,2.5(2))

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