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Re: n bits on of m bits

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Dave wrote:
) On Dec 20, 9:16?am, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote:
)> If the input is narrow enough to fit in an hardware data type that has
)> fast addition, bit operations, and shifts, counting the one bits only
)> takes log(w) steps, where w is the width in bits, not the value of the
)> input number.
)
) The code I posted in http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/cb1e398f74688e66
) steps from one number with n bits set directly to the next one, so the
) loop count is mCn.

Making the same assumption about hardware data types as above, of course.

But that goes for the complexity of just about all algorithms out there, really.


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n bits on of m bits Andrew Tomazos <andrew@tomazos.com> - 2011-12-17 08:05 -0800
  Re: n bits on of m bits Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-17 10:44 -0600
  Re: n bits on of m bits Dave <dave_and_darla@Juno.com> - 2011-12-17 08:56 -0800
  Re: n bits on of m bits richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2011-12-17 17:22 +0000
  Re: n bits on of m bits "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-12-17 18:23 +0000
    Re: n bits on of m bits Andrew Tomazos <andrew@tomazos.com> - 2011-12-17 11:05 -0800
  Re: n bits on of m bits Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-17 13:24 -0600
    Re: n bits on of m bits Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2011-12-17 13:47 -0600
  Re: n bits on of m bits blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2011-12-17 11:28 -0800
  Re: n bits on of m bits "The Last Danish Pastry" <clivet@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 21:52 +0000
    Re: n bits on of m bits kym@kymhorsell.com - 2011-12-19 22:44 +0000
      Re: n bits on of m bits Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2011-12-19 15:33 -0800
        Re: n bits on of m bits kym@kymhorsell.com - 2011-12-20 03:51 +0000
        Re: n bits on of m bits Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-12-20 10:05 +0000
          Re: n bits on of m bits Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-12-20 07:16 -0800
            Re: n bits on of m bits Dave <dave_and_darla@Juno.com> - 2011-12-20 07:29 -0800
              Re: n bits on of m bits Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-12-20 16:00 +0000
      Re: n bits on of m bits The Last Danish Pastry <clivet@gmail.com> - 2011-12-19 16:41 -0800
        Re: n bits on of m bits kym@kymhorsell.com - 2011-12-20 04:29 +0000
  Re: n bits on of m bits kym@kymhorsell.com - 2011-12-20 19:04 +0000
  Re: n bits on of m bits Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2011-12-22 07:25 -0800
    Re: n bits on of m bits Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-12-22 15:58 +0000
      Re: n bits on of m bits Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2011-12-22 16:26 -0800
        Re: n bits on of m bits Willem <willem@toad.stack.nl> - 2011-12-23 18:58 +0000
          Re: n bits on of m bits Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2011-12-25 04:01 -0800
            Re: n bits on of m bits Dave <dave_and_darla@Juno.com> - 2011-12-25 09:22 -0800
  Re: n bits on of m bits Dr J R Stockton <reply1151@merlyn.demon.co.uk> - 2011-12-24 23:36 +0000
  Re: n bits on of m bits "io_x" <a@b.c.invalid> - 2011-12-31 16:32 +0100

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