How to get bitstring length of integer in oracle pl/sql?

How I can calculate bit length of an integer in Oracle's PL/SQL?

I would like to get something like cast INT to BIT ST开发者_运维技巧RING and then LENGTH( LTRIM(BIT STRING, '0') )'

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you can use the following formula to get the number of characters of the binary representation of an integer n (n>0):

ceil(log(2, n + 1))

SQL> SELECT n, ceil(log(2, n + 1)) num_of_char
  2    FROM (SELECT ROWNUM n FROM dual CONNECT BY LEVEL <= 64);

         N NUM_OF_CHAR
---------- -----------
         1           1
         2           2
         3           2
         4           3
         5           3
         6           3
         7           3
         8           4
        [...]
        15           4
        16           5
        [...]
        31           5
        32           6
        [...]
        63           6
        64           7