On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 04:32, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com>wrote:

> OK. But since there's no way of getting a byte count for an Integer
> either...
>

The count depends on how you're serializing it; unless you are literally
serializing to individual bits and sending them over a synchronous serial
link, the correct answer is an integer logarithm by your word size + the
current definition of bitSize applied to said word.

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