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Author fredrikj
Recipients fredrikj, loewis, mark.dickinson, pitrou, rhettinger, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2008-12-13.16:43:32
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FYI, Brent & Zimmermann call this function nbits(n) in "Modern Computer
Arithmetic": http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/mca/pub226.html

I don't really care much about the name though.

In the documentation, should "same value as ``x.bit_length``" not be
"same value as ``x.bit_length()``"?
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2008-12-13 16:44:33fredrikjsetrecipients: + fredrikj, loewis, rhettinger, terry.reedy, mark.dickinson, pitrou, vstinner
2008-12-13 16:44:32fredrikjsetmessageid: <1229186672.96.0.41904975894.issue3439@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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