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+# Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Bryce "Zooko" Wilcox-O'Hearn
+# mailto:zooko@zooko.com
+# http://zooko.com/repos/pyutil
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+# of this work to deal in this work without restriction (including the rights
+# to use, modify, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies).
+
+"""
+A few commonly needed functions.
+"""
+
+import math
+
+def div_ceil(n, d):
+ """
+ The smallest integer k such that k*d >= n.
+ """
+ return (n/d) + (n%d != 0)
+
+def next_multiple(n, k):
+ """
+ The smallest multiple of k which is >= n.
+ """
+ return div_ceil(n, k) * k
+
+def pad_size(n, k):
+ """
+ The smallest number that has to be added to n so that n is a multiple of k.
+ """
+ if n%k:
+ return k - n%k
+ else:
+ return 0
+
+def is_power_of_k(n, k):
+ return k**int(math.log(n, k) + 0.5) == n