From: Michael Hoisie <hoisie@berkeley.edu>
Cc: yminsky@gmail.com, Caml Mailing List <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Counting bits in a big_int
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 21:19:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511211912.01ed66a0@phirelord> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <891bd3390405112022194630a8@mail.gmail.com>
If you have any arbitrary big_int, n, wouldn't the number of bits be equal to 2^x, where x is the number such that 2^x >= n?
So, if you have 100 (1100100), then the number of bits would be 7, because 2^7>=100.
Is this what you mean?
-Michael Hoisie
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2004-05-12 3:22 Yaron Minsky
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2004-05-15 2:53 ` Yaron Minsky
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2004-05-15 20:19 ` Yaron Minsky
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