From: Jim Blandy (jimb at red-bean.com) Date: Wed Mar 22 14:32:33 EST 2006 |
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What's frustrating here is that, for bignums, the system has an approximation to the log base 2--- the length of the number in memory --- right there, but it won't give it to you. So you should be able to get it in constant time.
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