require File.expand_path('../../../spec_helper', __FILE__) describe "Bignum#size" do it "returns the number of bytes required to hold the unsigned bignum data" do # that is, n such that 256 * n <= val.abs < 256 * (n+1) (256**7).size.should == 8 (256**8).size.should == 9 (256**9).size.should == 10 (256**10).size.should == 11 (256**10-1).size.should == 10 (256**11).size.should == 12 (256**12).size.should == 13 (256**20-1).size.should == 20 (256**40-1).size.should == 40 end end