Question about SQL Query

[Randy Burkholder]

I am working with a program that runs a MySQL backend. Sometimes, I can't get the information I want out of the program so I run queries directly on the database. I couldn't find something I was looking for in the database so I took a look at the one of the pre-built queries from the program that referenced the data I was looking for. The query looks like this:

select * from table
where (`table`.column & 16) = 16

My question is, what is the "& 16" in the where clause? I cannot find that referenced in the table.