Coding Towards The Answer, Part 3

Mechanisms: Depict, Detect, Direct, …

Coding Towards The Answer, Part 2

As we construct our mechanisms, we realize we need to indicate the state and status in order for us to pick up from where was left off from before a state we are interested in. To illustrate, let’s construct bit flags:

# types of detection on the `bit flags`
bits = 0b00_0000000000_0000000000_0000000000  # 32-bit integer initialized with all bits set to 0

position_N = 8
all_set = 0b00_0000000000_0000000000_0011111111 # defined state: all flags set
# set bit flags: Setting bits to 1 (`ON`)
bits |= 0b00000000000000000000000000001111  # Setting the first 4 bits (from the right) to 1
bits |= (0b000000000000000000000000000001 << (position_N - 1)) # Setting the Nth position bit (from the right) to 1

print(bin(bits))  # Printing the binary representation of the modified bits

def set_to_ON(bitVector, index):
    return bitVector | (1 << index)   # Ensure set to `1`. if already ON, nothing changes

def set_to_OFF(bitVector, index):
    mask = ~(1 << index)
    return bitVector & mask

def toggle(bitVector, index):
    return bitVector ^ (1 << index)   # if it is ON, it clears it (OFF). If it is OFF, it turns it ON.

def create_bit_vector(phrase):
    bitVector = 0
    for c in phrase:
        index = ord(c) …