Recent content by matthew180

@jedishrfu: Thanks! Population count, I should have realized that. @Hurkyl: Yes, that seems to be another way to describe the idea.

What kind of mathematical "order" is this? Disclaimer: Sorry if this question is off-topic, I really don't yet know where it "belongs". I wrote a program that counts the number of "1" bits in a 16-bit value. My program is brute force right now (loop 0 to 65535, shift each number and count...