Hi Carlos,
On Thu, Mar 6, 2025, at 10:08, Carlos Martin wrote:
> Feature request: Add a `bit_width` function to NumPy's [bit-wise
> operations](https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/routines.bitwise.html)
> that computes the [bit-width](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-width)
> (also called bit-length) of an input.
I'm curious, would this be roughly:
def bit_width(x):
y = np.zeros(len(x), dtype=float)
mask = (x != 0)
y[mask] = 1 + np.floor(np.log2(x[mask]))
return y
plus some error checking to ensure you don't run it on unsigned or floating
point types?
Stéfan
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