On Oct 8, 10:56 am, Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think that (0).numbits()==-1 is the natural solution.
>
> Can you clarify this? Why is -1 the natural solution? I
> can see a case for 0, for -infinity (whatever that means),
> or for raising an exception, but I can't see why -1 wo
> See also http://bugs.python.org/issue3439
> where there's a proposal to expose the _PyLong_NumBits method. This
> would give an O(1) solution.
> > In every case I can think of, I've wanted (0).numbits() to be 0.
Here is surely the wrong place to respond to
http://bugs.python.org/msg71384
but
Hi,
I'm using python to develop some proof-of-concept code for a
cryptographic application. My code makes extended use of python's
native bignum capabilities.
In many cryptographic applications there is the need for a function
'get_highest_bit_num' that returns the position number of the highest
