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size

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size() public

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

1.size            #=> 4
-1.size           #=> 4
2147483647.size   #=> 4
(256**10 - 1).size   #=> 12
(256**20 - 1).size   #=> 20
(256**40 - 1).size   #=> 40

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static VALUE
int_size(VALUE num)
{
    if (FIXNUM_P(num)) {
        return fix_size(num);
    }
    else if (RB_TYPE_P(num, T_BIGNUM)) {
        return rb_big_size_m(num);
    }
    return Qnil;
}

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