Bitwise operations on natural numbers #
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In the first half of this file, we provide theorems for reasoning about natural numbers from their
bitwise properties. In the second half of this file, we show properties of the bitwise operations
lor, land and lxor, which are defined in core.
Main results #
eq_of_test_bit_eq: two natural numbers are equal if they have equal bits at every position.exists_most_significant_bit: ifn ≠ 0, then there is some positionithat contains the most significant1-bit ofn.lt_of_test_bit: ifnandmare numbers andiis a position such that thei-th bit of ofnis zero, thei-th bit ofmis one, and all more significant bits are equal, thenn < m.
Future work #
There is another way to express bitwise properties of natural number: digits 2. The two ways
should be connected.
Keywords #
bitwise, and, or, xor