package com.thealgorithms.bitmanipulation;
/**
* Utility class for checking if a number is a power of two.
* A power of two is a number that can be expressed as 2^n where n is a non-negative integer.
* This class provides a method to determine if a given integer is a power of two using bit manipulation.
*
* @author Bama Charan Chhandogi (https://github.com/BamaCharanChhandogi)
*/
public final class IsPowerTwo {
private IsPowerTwo() {
}
/**
* Checks if the given integer is a power of two.
*
* A number is considered a power of two if it is greater than zero and
* has exactly one '1' bit in its binary representation. This method
* uses the property that for any power of two (n), the expression
* (n & (n - 1)) will be zero.
*
* @param number the integer to check
* @return true if the number is a power of two, false otherwise
*/
public static boolean isPowerTwo(int number) {
if (number <= 0) {
return false;
}
int ans = number & (number - 1);
return ans == 0;
}
}