## Copyright (C) 1995-2016 Kurt Hornik
##
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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn {} {} nextpow2 (@var{x})
## Compute the exponent for the smallest power of two larger than the input.
##
## For each element in the input array @var{x}, return the first integer
## @var{n} such that
## @tex
## $2^n \ge |x|$.
## @end tex
## @ifnottex
## 2^n @geq{} abs (x).
## @end ifnottex
##
## @seealso{pow2, log2}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
## Created: 7 October 1994
## Adapted-By: jwe

function n = nextpow2 (x)

  if (nargin != 1)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (! isnumeric (x))
    error ("nextpow2: X must be numeric");
  endif

  [f, n] = log2 (abs (x));
  n(f == 0.5)--;

endfunction


%!assert (nextpow2 (16), 4)
%!assert (nextpow2 (17), 5)
%!assert (nextpow2 (31), 5)
%!assert (nextpow2 (-16), 4)
%!assert (nextpow2 (-17), 5)
%!assert (nextpow2 (-31), 5)
%!assert (nextpow2 (1:17), [0 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5])

%!error nexpow2 ()
%!error nexpow2 (1, 2)

