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instance method

Integer#size

() -> ::Integer

size → integer

# File tmp/rubies/ruby-4.1.0-preview1/numeric.rb, line 239
def size
  Primitive.attr! :leaf
  Primitive.cexpr! 'rb_int_size(self)'
end

Returns the number of bytes in the machine representation of self; the value is system-dependent:

Example

1.size             # => 8
-1.size            # => 8
2147483647.size    # => 8
(256**10 - 1).size # => 10
(256**20 - 1).size # => 20
(256**40 - 1).size # => 40

See also #round #succ #remainder #times also in 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.2 · 3.1 · 3.0

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