rice code in Rust

rice.rs

// https://crates.io/crates/bit-vec
use bit_vec::BitVec;

pub fn encode_rice(li: &[usize], m: u32) -> BitVec {
    fn encode_quotient(k: usize, m: u32) -> BitVec {
        let q: usize = (((k - 1) / m as usize) as f64).floor() as usize;
        // encode (quotient + 1) in unary code
        let mut bv = BitVec::from_elem(q + 1, false);
        bv.set(q, true);
        bv
    }

    fn encode_remainder(k: usize, m: u32) -> BitVec {
        let rem = (k - 1) % m as usize;
        // encode remainder in binary code
        let nbits = (m as f64).log2() as usize;
        let mut bv = BitVec::from_elem(nbits, false);
        let rem_bv = BitVec::from_bytes(&rem.to_be_bytes());
        let mut pos: usize = 0;
        for i in (rem_bv.len() - nbits)..rem_bv.len() {
            if let Some(b) = rem_bv.get(i) {
                bv.set(pos, b);
                pos += 1;
            }
        }
        bv
    }

    fn encode(k: usize, m: u32) -> BitVec {
        let mut bv = encode_quotient(k, m);
        let rem_bv = encode_remainder(k, m);

        let mut pos = bv.len();
        bv.grow(rem_bv.len(), false);
        for bit in rem_bv.iter() {
            bv.set(pos, bit);
            pos += 1;
        }
        bv
    }

    let mut bv_all = BitVec::new();
    for &k in li {
        let bv = encode(k, m);
        let mut offset = bv_all.len();
        bv_all.grow(bv.len(), false);
        for bit in bv.iter() {
            bv_all.set(offset, bit);
            offset += 1;
        }
    }
    bv_all
}