So I'm struggling to find out what this function is doing and what it looks like in terms of illustration. Does it have to do with binary numbers?

 * C++ has floating-point exponentiation named pow in the cmath library, * but no integer exponentiation. This is unsigned integer exponentiation. * @param base the base which is being raised to a power * @param exp the exponent to which to raise the base * @return base raised to the exp power */ uint ipow(uint base, uint exp) { if( base == 0 ) return 1; uint result = 1; while( exp > 0 ) { if( (exp & 1) == 1 ) result *= base; exp >>= 1; base *= base; } return result; }