Bitwise Operators in GAP

Question

Is one able to to use bitwise operators in the GAP programming language? For example, in Python one can do the following:

a = 60            # 60 = 0011 1100 
b = 13            # 13 = 0000 1101 
c = 0

c = a & b;        # 12 = 0000 1100
c = a | b;        # 61 = 0011 1101 
c = a ^ b;        # 49 = 0011 0001
c = ~a;           # -61 = 1100 0011
c = a << 2;       # 240 = 1111 0000
c = a >> 2;       # 15 = 0000 1111

I'd like to be able to do all of the above operations in GAP, but I can't seem to find anything in the documentation.

Here is a link to the documentation: https://www.gap-system.org/Manuals/doc/ref/chap0.html

Answer 1

No, no such operations are directly available. Depending on what you actually want to do, you could of course "emulate" them in various ways, but that won't be quite as efficient. For example, you use boolean lists (which are internally stored as bitstrings), or vectors in a vector space over GF(2).