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Re:Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C by lambda_cube on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @05:07PM (#2809495)
Nice to see some experimentation. :)

I tested all 2^31 non-negative integers, which is 2147483648 values. If I remember correctly, the value that was wrong was large, probably between 2^30 and 2^31. Java is pretty fast and I think this took tens of minutes. Python is about 20 times slower so it may take hours for you.

Re:Ten Ways to Check if an Integer Is a Power Of Two in C by zxw on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @06:31PM (#2809749)
Yeh it's fairly slow going. I'm at 3,706,382,752 and am going to call it a day. Looks like the code works properly.