Bitwise AND OR XOR Calculator

About this calculator

Bitwise AND, OR and XOR compare two numbers one binary digit at a time. AND returns 1 only where both numbers have a 1 in that position, OR returns 1 where either number has a 1, and XOR (exclusive or) returns 1 only where exactly one of the two numbers has a 1 — meaning matching bits cancel out to 0. Applying an operation to every bit position at once is what makes these ‘bitwise’ rather than the plain logical AND/OR used on whole true/false values.

Programmers use bitwise AND to mask off specific bits — such as checking a subnet mask against an IP address, or testing whether a particular flag is set in a bitfield — bitwise OR to combine flags together, and XOR for tasks like toggling bits, swapping two values without a temporary variable, simple stream ciphers, and detecting differences between two binary values, since XOR-ing something with itself always produces zero.

Enter two non-negative whole numbers and the calculator computes their AND, OR and XOR, with the XOR result also shown in binary so you can see exactly which bit positions differ.