Use of "OR" I've never seen

[Nicodemas]

This is an interesting issue. I've never seen an Or operator used like this. Can anyone else explain?

response.write (8 or 16) '// outputs 24
response.write (10 or 11) '// outputs 11
response.write (5 or 6) '// outputs 7

Based on the outputs, I cannot seem to make sense of the pattern!

Help?

[Christopher Nigro]

bitwise OR operation:
http://www.livephysics.com/ptools/bitwise-operation.php