Returns how many bits are necessary to hold a certain number
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using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.NetworkInformation;
using System.Net.Sockets;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace Lidgren.Network
{
/// <summary>
/// Utility methods
/// </summary>
public static class NetUtility
{
/// <summary>
/// Returns how many bits are necessary to hold a certain number
/// </summary>
[CLSCompliant(false)]
public static int BitsToHoldUInt(uint value)
{
int bits = 1;
while ((value >>= 1) != 0)
bits++;
return bits;
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns how many bytes are required to hold a certain number of bits
/// </summary>
public static int BytesToHoldBits(int numBits)
{
return (numBits + 7) / 8;
}
}
}
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