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Bit Manipulation easy

Find Duplicate Bits

Given a positive integer, return the positions where the bit value appears more than once in its binary form.

bit-manipulation binary counting
+8 pts 12m
Bit Manipulation easy

Toggle kth Bit

Implement a function that toggles the kth bit of a non-negative integer (0-indexed from the least significant bit) and returns the new integer.

bit-manipulation xor binary
+10 pts 10m
Bit Manipulation easy

Odd Parity Bit

Given an integer, return the odd parity bit (0 or 1) so that total number of 1-bits in the 8-bit representation becomes odd.

bitwise parity integer
+8 pts 10m
Bit Manipulation easy

Parse bit field flags

Write a function that unpacks a bit field integer into a dict of named boolean flags.

bitmask bitwise flags
+10 pts 12m
Bit Manipulation easy

Subset XOR sum

Given a list of integers, compute the bitwise XOR of each non-empty subset and return the sum of those XOR totals.

xor bitwise subsets
+8 pts 10m
Bit Manipulation easy

Check kth bit

Implement a function that checks whether the k-th bit of a non-negative integer is set (1) or not (0).

bit-manipulation bitwise integer
+8 pts 10m
Bit Manipulation easy

Even Parity Bit

Given an integer, return the even parity bit (0 or 1) that makes the total count of set bits even.

bitwise parity bits
+8 pts 10m
Matrix & 2D Arrays easy

Flipping an Image

Implement a function that flips an image represented as a binary matrix by reversing each row and inverting each pixel.

matrix list-comprehension bitwise
+10 pts 15m
Data Formats & Parsing easy

Encode Base64 String

Write a function that encodes a UTF-8 string into a base64 string without using the base64 module.

base64 encoding strings
+8 pts 15m
Cryptography & Hashing easy

XOR Cipher Encode

Implement the XOR cipher: encode a string by XORing each character with a key character.

xor encryption strings
+10 pts 10m

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