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[Caml-list] Counting bits in a big_int

Yaron Minsky
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From:	Yaron Minsky <yminsky@g...>
Subject:	[Caml-list] Counting bits in a big_int

Any thoughts on what would be a reasonably efficient way to count the
number of bits in a big_int?  There's no method that directly does it.
 There is the "num_digits_big_int" call, but that returns the number
of machine words.

y

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