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* Setting Bit: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/set-k-th-bit-given-number/

* To set any bit we use bitwise OR (|) operator.

* Bitwise OR (|) compares the bits of the 32

* bit binary representations of the number and

* returns a number after comparing each bit.

* 0 | 0 -> 0

* 0 | 1 -> 1

* 1 | 0 -> 1

* 1 | 1 -> 1

* In-order to set kth bit of a number (where k is the position where bit is to be changed)

* we need to shift 1 k times to its left and then perform bitwise OR operation with the

* number and result of left shift performed just before.

* References:

* https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Operators/Bitwise_OR

/**

* @param {number} number

* @param {number} bitPosition - zero based.

* @return {number}

export const setBit = (number, bitPosition) => {

return number | (1 << bitPosition)

}

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