how bitwise operations are used

(I'd love to hear what folks find confusing about this one — still trying to work on the explanation here)

@b0rk the top right confused me at first. I read it a couple times thinking "why would ANDing with all Fs set anything to 0?"

I eventually realized you were only showing the 16 bits and implying that x had more digits to the left of that.

It's totally a valid way to show it. But it took me an extra couple reads to understand.