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Programming-Idioms

  • JS
  • C#
using System.Numerics;
var c = BitOperations.PopCount((uint)i);

.Net Core 3.0 or newer required
public static int BitCount(int i)
{
    var c = 0;
    while (n != 0)
    {
        c++;
        n &= (n - 1); //walking through all the bits which are set to one
    }

    return c;
}
const c = i.toString(2).replace(/[^1]/g, '').length

• Convert the number to binary
• Replace characters that aren't '1' by turning them to ''
• See how long the resulting list of '1's is
#include <stdint.h>
uint32_t c = i;
c = (c & 0x55555555) + ((c & 0xAAAAAAAA) >> 1);
c = (c & 0x33333333) + ((c & 0xCCCCCCCC) >> 2);
c = (c & 0x0F0F0F0F) + ((c & 0xF0F0F0F0) >> 4);
c = (c & 0x00FF00FF) + ((c & 0xFF00FF00) >> 8);
c = (c & 0x0000FFFF) + ((c & 0xFFFF0000) >> 16);

add even and odd bits
then add even and odd pairs of bits
then add even and odd quadruples of bits
then add even and odd octets of bits
then add whatever groups of 16 bits are called
done

with gcc you can also use the function _builtin_popcount

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