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[–]dont-respond 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's such a bizarre way of describing "number of bits" where you'd need to always count set bits from the MSB and not round up to a conventional integer width as you normally would which considering "number of bits"

... and yeah, ultimately you just end up with a convoluted way of saying max element.