Thread: Bitwise operators

So I just finished reading the bitwise operators tutorial. I read that using the leftshift operators, one can raise a number to a power.

Code:

[variable]<<[number of places]

In my code I've done this:

Code:

printf("%d", 5<<2);

5 to the power of 2 is 5*5 which is 25 but the result is 20. Any reason why? Is there something I'm missing?

Never mind. Every move to the left is the the power of 2. I re-read the tutorial and picked up really fast. Sorry guys XD. Misread things.