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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients fredrikj, loewis, mark.dickinson, rhettinger, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date 2008-12-13.09:26:11
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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?
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