Method: Integer#size

Defined in:
numeric.c

#size ⇒ Integer

Returns the number of bytes in the machine representation of int (machine dependent).

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

Returns:


4857
4858
4859
4860
4861
4862
4863
4864
4865
4866
4867
 
# File 'numeric.c', line 4857

static VALUE
int_size(VALUE num)
{
    if (FIXNUM_P(num)) {
	return fix_size(num);
    }
    else if (RB_TYPE_P(num, T_BIGNUM)) {
	return rb_big_size_m(num);
    }
    return Qnil;
}