On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Mark S. Miller <erig...@google.com> wrote:

> Why is logcount called "logcount"? As the doc on integer-length makes
> clear, it has a strong relation to the log-base-2 of the number. logcount
> does not.
>

Common Lisp calls most *bitwise* functions of integers log<something>,
that's all.
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