Re^3: reliably test integer size for portable bit-fiddling? (~0)

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$ perl -E " say  log(~0)/log(2) "
31.9999999996641

$ perl -E " say  int 0.999+log(~0)/log(2) "
32
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Re^4: reliably test integer size for portable bit-fiddling? (~0) by tye (Sage) on Dec 10, 2014 at 15:34 UTC
`$ perl -le "print log(~0+1)/log(2)" 32` [download] or, to be safe `$ perl -e 'printf "%.0f\n", log(~0+1)/log(2)' 32` [download] - tye	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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