How to check if a number is a power of 2

Question

Today I needed a simple algorithm for checking if a number is a power of 2.

The algorithm needs to be:

1. Simple
2. Correct for any ulong

Answer 1

Improving the answer of @user134548, without bits arithmetic:

public static bool IsPowerOfTwo(ulong n)
{
    if (n % 2 != 0) return false;  // is odd (can't be power of 2)

    double exp = Math.Log(n, 2);
    if (exp != Math.Floor(exp)) return false;  // if exp is not integer, n can't be power
    return Math.Pow(2, exp) == n;
}

This works fine for:

IsPowerOfTwo(9223372036854775809)