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It's a matter of using ANDs, and other boolean stuff (if you want to read multiple bits). Basically, you use the formula:

bitNSet = (originalInteger & (1 << N) == 1 << N)

Effectively, every integer is represented by a binary sequence. For example, 39 would be represented by 100111. Each one and zero is a bit. To get a bit, you have to AND it, which gets all the bits which are set in both of the numbers given to it. For example, 39 AND 4 would be worked out like so:

100111 AND
000100 =
------
000100

As you can see, you end up with a binary sequence, which is represented by 4 in decimal (base-10). You use the AND against a bit pattern to see if that bit is set. Now, unfortunately, you don't get a true or false value. Note that the result of 39 AND 4 was 4. So, we can apply this further, and say that if q AND n is equal to n, then bit n was set.

Now we just have to get a binary pattern to use against the AND. To get this, we just use the << operator. It will perform a left binary shift on the left operand. So 1 << 5 would result in 100000, 1 << 2 would result in 100, etc. Those numbers are in binary format by the way. So, shifting 1 left by N will give us a binary pattern where only the Nth bit is set. By ANDing that with the original integer, we can check if the bit is set

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