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Author vstinner
Recipients fredrikj, loewis, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2008-12-12.16:56:31
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> I'll work on the documentation

Ok, cool.

> a description of the semantics of numbits for 0 and negative 
integers

About the negative integer: the documentation should be "number of 
bits of the *absolute value* of x" and "by convention, 0.numbits() is 
0". But you're right, the documentation is not clear.
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2008-12-12 16:56:34vstinnersetrecipients: + vstinner, loewis, rhettinger, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, fredrikj
2008-12-12 16:56:34vstinnersetmessageid: <1229100994.21.0.103514408264.issue3439@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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