Ruby | Integer & method

Last Updated : 12 Jul, 2025

The & is an inbuilt method in Ruby returns the bitwise and of two numbers. It returns num1 & num2.

Syntax: num1 & num2 Parameters: The function accepts no parameter. Return Value: It returns the bitwise and of two numbers.

Example 1:

Ruby

# Ruby program for & method in Integer 
  
# Initialize numbers 
num1 = 15
num2 = 4 

# Prints remainder 
print num1 & num2

Output:

Example 2:

Ruby

# Ruby program for & method in Integer 
  
# Initialize numbers 
num1 = 21
num2 = 3 

# Prints remainder 
print num1 & num2

Output:

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