Sum of All Subset XOR Totals

Explore how to compute the sum of XOR totals of every subset within an integer array using bitwise manipulation in C++. This lesson helps you understand subsets, XOR operation, and how to efficiently combine them to solve this class of problems.

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Given an array of integers, nums, compute and return the sum of XOR totals for all its possible subsets.

A subset is any combination of elements from the original array, nums. This includes the empty subset (containing no elements) and the subset that includes all array elements.
The XOR total of a subset results from applying the XOR operation to all the elements in that subset.

Note: If the nums array has duplicate elements, then subsets that contain the same elements but with different indexes are treated as separate. Each subset’s ...