/// <summary>
/// This computes the number of common most-significant bits in the mantissa.
/// It does not count the hidden bit, which is always 1.
/// It does not determine whether the numbers have the same exponent - if they do
/// not, the value computed by this function is meaningless.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="db"></param>
/// <returns> The number of common most-significant mantissa bits.</returns>
public int NumCommonMantissaBits(DoubleBits db)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 52; i++)
{
if (GetBit(i) != db.GetBit(i))
{
return(i);
}
}
return(52);
}
/// <summary>
/// This computes the number of common most-significant bits in the mantissa.
/// It does not count the hidden bit, which is always 1.
/// It does not determine whether the numbers have the same exponent - if they do
/// not, the value computed by this function is meaningless.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="db"></param>
/// <returns> The number of common most-significant mantissa bits.</returns>
public int NumCommonMantissaBits(DoubleBits db)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 52; i++)
{
if (GetBit(i) != db.GetBit(i))
return i;
}
return 52;
}
