Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: About the name:
Java's Bignum has a 'significantBits' method, which apparently returns the position of the MSB (i.e., numbits - 1). GMP has mpz_sizeinbase; mpz_sizeinbase(n, 2) is almost the same as numbits, except that mpz_sizeinbase(0, 2) is 1, not 0. Mathematica has BitLength. I quite like this. Googling for 'ilog2' returns a good few relevant hits; again, this is really numbits - 1, not numbits. How about n.bitlength? _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3439> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
