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title: "ClikaRT::ops::bitwise_or"
sidebar_label: "bitwise_or"
description: "Elementwise bitwise OR; dtype law as bitwise_and. the broadcast-shaped OR at the operands' shared dtype."
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## bitwise\_or() {#bitwise_or}

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[`Tensor`](../Tensor.md) **`bitwise_or`**([`Tensor`](../Tensor.md) `input`, [`ScalarOrTensor`](../ScalarOrTensor.md) `other`)

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Elementwise bitwise OR; dtype law as [`bitwise_and`](./bitwise_and.md#bitwise_and).

**Returns:** the broadcast-shaped OR at the operands' shared dtype.

**Throws**

- `ClikaRT::Error`: (`INVALID_ARGUMENT`) when the operand dtypes differ, for a floating-point operand, or broadcast-incompatible shapes.

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Declared in `ClikaRT/compute/ops.h`, line 1666

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