Question

unsigned int command = 4;
cout << command;

command = (command << 1);
cout << command;

command = (command << 1);
cout << command;

Output:

4
8
10

Why is is the output of the last line 10, and not 16?

Answer 1

There’s probably a cout << hex somewhere before this code runs. Either that or you accidentally set cout to format numbers in hexadecimal. If you add:

command = (command<<1);
cout << command;

It should print out 20 in hex mode.