Quoting the Haddock documentation for Data.Bits.bitSize:
"Return the number of bits in the type of the argument. The actual value of the argument is ignored. The function bitSize is undefined for types that do not have a fixed bitsize, like Integer."
Does anybody else think it would be *far* more useful if bitSize applied to an Integer would tell you how many bits that particular Integer is using? Especially given that it can vary?
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