Why would you ever need to shift bits?

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JoJo
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What's the reasoning behind it.

Does this cause arithmetic to be performed faster or what?
All I can see is that it multiplies numbers by 2 or divide by 2 at the binary level.

I don't understand why this is ever needed.

Can someone explain?