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Line 13: == Terminology == ''Bit twiddling'', ''bit fiddling'', ''bit bashing'', and ''bit ~~bashing~~gymnastics'' are often used interchangeably with bit manipulation, but sometimes exclusively refer to clever or non-obvious ways or uses of bit manipulation, or tedious or challenging [[High- and low-level\|low-level]] device control data manipulation tasks. The term ''bit twiddling'' dates from [[History of computing hardware\|early computing hardware]], where computer operators would make adjustments by tweaking or ''twiddling'' computer controls. As computer programming languages evolved, programmers adopted the term to mean any handling of data that involved bit-level [[computation]].

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