Hi Amit, If you are answer this question orally then the format you have given is just a hexadecimal number. Its value would be 0x00003f33. So the number of 1's would be simply 2+4+2+2 = 10. Programatically whatever solution Sahin has given seems to be good enough.
2010/8/4 Seçkin Can Şahin <seckincansa...@gmail.com> > either count it with a for loop or if you are using C, use > __builtin_popcount(int x) > > or > > x is given > int count = 0; > for(int i=0; i<32;i++) count += (x & (1<<i)) != 0; > > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:04 PM, amit <amitjaspal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> (3*4096+15*256+3*16+3). How many 1's are there in the binary >> representation of the result. >> >> Is there a quick way to count the number of set bits in this number >> manually??? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Algorithm Geeks" group. >> To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >> . >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Algorithm Geeks" group. > To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<algogeeks%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en. > -- Regards Bhanu Mobile +91 9886738496 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algoge...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to algogeeks+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks?hl=en.