[issue3439] create a numbits() method for int and long types

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Antoine, it's not bike-shedding at all.  Communicative docs are
important to users other than assembly language programmers.  BTW, I am
a finance person (a CPA).

Yes, you're correct, I can fix-up the docs after the patch is posted.

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