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As described in Chapter 1, you can use an enumeration to define bit flags. Bit flags allow a series of items to be selected or deselected by switching individual bits in a sequence on and off. To ensure that each value in an enumeration relates to a single bit, the numbering must follow the binary sequence whereby each value is a power of two, for example
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Fenton, S. (2014). Bitwise Flags. In: Pro TypeScript. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6790-4_12
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