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Bit Tricks Ladder

This ladder is the bridge from ordinary integer code into "one integer is one state" thinking.

Who This Is For

Use this ladder when:

  • masks and xor keep appearing, but you still translate them back into arrays by hand
  • you know the operators, but not the modeling cues
  • subset iteration and lowbit tricks still feel memorized instead of natural

Warm-Up

  • parity
  • powers of two
  • set / clear / toggle one bit
  • popcount

Core

  • subset masks
  • lowbit and peeling one chosen element
  • subset iteration
  • xor as state algebra rather than only arithmetic

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