How to Swap two numbers without using third variable? Bit Manipulation Interview - XOR

In this video, we look into an XOR property that helps us swap two numbers using bit manipulations without requiring a third variable in C/C++. This is a commonly asked interview question for software/firmware /embedded roles.
There are other methods available to do the same, such as a combination of multiplication - division, or addition-subtraction. But these methods have a disadvantage against using XOR. For using addition or multiplication, we would have to limit the range of input, else the resultants could go out of range.
Also, a helpful insight that we find through this problem is the associative property and commutative property of XOR operations.

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