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| author | Yesudeep Mangalapilly <yesudeep@gmail.com> | 2011-08-11 02:41:08 +0530 |
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| committer | Yesudeep Mangalapilly <yesudeep@gmail.com> | 2011-08-11 02:41:08 +0530 |
| commit | fbaec865aea759244fa8a3d3ef2064992a679334 (patch) | |
| tree | dd30c6fe94773f64481f0d2d49028b344e364301 | |
| parent | 2eeea2ca19fdea9f354bbec685e168fee370d19f (diff) | |
| download | rsa-fbaec865aea759244fa8a3d3ef2064992a679334.tar.gz | |
Re-implements byte_size using divmod avoiding floating-point calculations.
| -rw-r--r-- | rsa/common.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/rsa/common.py b/rsa/common.py index 4d7698f..33714a6 100644 --- a/rsa/common.py +++ b/rsa/common.py @@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ '''Common functionality shared by several modules.''' -import math def bit_size(number): '''Returns the number of bits required to hold a specific long number. @@ -67,7 +66,13 @@ def byte_size(number): 129 """ - return int(math.ceil(bit_size(number) / 8.0)) + # Does not perform floating-point division and uses built-in divmod + # operator. + quanta, mod = divmod(bit_size(number), 8) + if mod: + quanta += 1 + return quanta + #return int(math.ceil(bit_size(number) / 8.0)) def extended_gcd(a, b): |