Alex Loves Bitmasking

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Alex Loves Bitmasking Problem Statement : Alex has an array of integers in which every other element occurs twice except two unique elements a and b which occur only for once. Alex gave john a task to find the following expression Y which is as follows: Y = (P bitwise OR Q) XOR (P bitwise AND Q) where P is the sum of those unique elements (a+b) and Q is hamming distance between them

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