method

size

v1_9_3_125 - Show latest stable - Class: Bignum

size()

public

Returns the number of bytes in the machine representation of big.

(256**10 - 1).size   #=> 12
(256**20 - 1).size   #=> 20
(256**40 - 1).size   #=> 40

static VALUE
rb_big_size(VALUE big)
{
    return LONG2FIX(RBIGNUM_LEN(big)*SIZEOF_BDIGITS);
}