Fredrik Johansson <[email protected]> added the comment:
When did the name change back to numbits? Anyway, I think this reference
implementation is better:
def numbits(x):
x = abs(x)
n = 0
while x:
n += 1
x //= 2
return n
(//= 2 could be changed to >>= 1)
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