bitwise OR
Bitwise OR is a bit-level operation on two binary values which indicates which bits are set in either value. For each position , if the bit in either value is 1, then of the result is 1, otherwise it’s 0. For example, given 50 and 163 in two unsigned bytes, a bitwise OR returns 179.
In most high-level programming languages that offer bitwise OR, the usual operator is a single pipe line (—), not to be confused with a double pipe line (——) which performs a Boolean OR, returning a True or False value.
The Windows Calculator offers bitwise OR in scientific calculator mode, while the Mac OS X Calculator offers it in programmer mode.