I am so excited because I finished my program.

Chainsaw is right, any nonzero value is true in a bool, so a bitwise AND wouldn't necessarily evaluate to true... and I shouldn't have tried using a...

This is giving me a headache...can someone please tell me why these statements ARE NOT equivalent?

Statement 1.)

if(running_result && shell[8 * (x - 1) + (y - 1)].input_val)
running_result...