Shift - Mathematics and Computing

Mathematics and Computing

  • Shift key, a key on a computer keyboard
  • Bit shift, a bitwise operator in computing
    • Barrel shifter, a digital circuit that can shift a data word by a specified number of bits
    • Arithmetic shift in telecommunication
    • Logical shift, a bitwise operation that shifts all the bits of its operand
    • Circular shift or bit rotation, often used in cryptography
  • Shift operator, a linear operator in mathematics

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