integer size

[Ron Croonenberg]

Yes i looked at that one too,   however I don't know what limbs are.

basically what I am doing is I am writing soomething where I use A LOT of
these integers.  I want to figure out how many I of these integers I can
keep around.
It would be new to be able to determine the size of an integer in bytes.

In a previous message I saw that  checking the length of a string
representation in binary and divide it by 8.

Knowing there are other types than just integers too, makes me wonder if
that actually is true.



On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Sam Rawlins <sam.rawlins at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Ron Croonenberg <
> ron.croonenberg at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
> > sorry about the late reaction.
> >
> > I checked that section,  however it says "Return the size of 'op'
> measured
> > in number of digits in the given base"
> >
> > However that is not what I want to know.  I want to know if I use an
> > mpz_t integer what it's actual size (in bytes) in memory is, not the
> number
> > of digits it has in a certain base.
> >
>
> There is also mpz_size under Integer Special Functions and GMP_LIMB_BITS at
> the bottom of Low-level Functions.
>
> >
> >
> > Ron
> >
> >
> --
> Sam Rawlins
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