diff --git a/candle-core/src/pickle.rs b/candle-core/src/pickle.rs
index 8b13b50b..2ca0daaf 100644
--- a/candle-core/src/pickle.rs
+++ b/candle-core/src/pickle.rs
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ impl PthTensors {
 /// # Arguments
 /// * `path` - Path to the pth file.
 /// * `key` - Optional key to retrieve `state_dict` from the pth file. Sometimes the pth file
-///           contains multiple objects and the state_dict is the one we are interested in.
+///   contains multiple objects and the state_dict is the one we are interested in.
 pub fn read_all_with_key<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(
     path: P,
     key: Option<&str>,
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/mamba-minimal/model.rs b/candle-examples/examples/mamba-minimal/model.rs
index 7ebea76a..56563086 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/mamba-minimal/model.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/mamba-minimal/model.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ impl Config {
     }
 
     fn dt_rank(&self) -> usize {
-        (self.d_model + 15) / 16
+        self.d_model.div_ceil(16)
     }
 
     fn d_conv(&self) -> usize {
diff --git a/candle-nn/src/loss.rs b/candle-nn/src/loss.rs
index 03e8524d..7fc349fa 100644
--- a/candle-nn/src/loss.rs
+++ b/candle-nn/src/loss.rs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ use candle::{Result, Tensor};
 /// Arguments
 ///
 /// * [inp]: The input tensor of dimensions `N, C` where `N` is the batch size and `C` the number
-///          of categories. This is expected to contain log probabilities.
+///   of categories. This is expected to contain log probabilities.
 /// * [target]: The ground truth labels as a tensor of u32 of dimension `N`.
 ///
 /// The resulting tensor is a scalar containing the average value over the batch.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pub fn nll(inp: &Tensor, target: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
 /// Arguments
 ///
 /// * [inp]: The input tensor of dimensions `N, C` where `N` is the batch size and `C` the number
-///          of categories. This is expected to raw logits.
+///   of categories. This is expected to raw logits.
 /// * [target]: The ground truth labels as a tensor of u32 of dimension `N`.
 ///
 /// The resulting tensor is a scalar containing the average value over the batch.
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ pub fn mse(inp: &Tensor, target: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
 /// Arguments
 ///
 /// * [inp]: The input tensor of dimensions `N, C` where `N` is the batch size and `C` the number
-///          of categories. This is expected to raw logits.
+///   of categories. This is expected to raw logits.
 /// * [target]: The ground truth labels as a tensor of u32 of dimension `N, C` where `N` is the batch size and `C` the number
-///          of categories.
+///   of categories.
 ///
 /// The resulting tensor is a scalar containing the average value over the batch.
 pub fn binary_cross_entropy_with_logit(inp: &Tensor, target: &Tensor) -> Result<Tensor> {
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/dac.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/dac.rs
index 78728b4d..d8465567 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/dac.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/dac.rs
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ impl EncoderBlock {
         let snake1 = Snake1d::new(dim / 2, vb.pp(3))?;
         let cfg1 = Conv1dConfig {
             stride,
-            padding: (stride + 1) / 2,
+            padding: stride.div_ceil(2),
             ..Default::default()
         };
         let conv1 = encodec::conv1d_weight_norm(dim / 2, dim, 2 * stride, cfg1, vb.pp(4))?;
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ impl DecoderBlock {
         let snake1 = Snake1d::new(in_dim, vb.pp(0))?;
         let cfg = ConvTranspose1dConfig {
             stride,
-            padding: (stride + 1) / 2,
+            padding: stride.div_ceil(2),
             ..Default::default()
         };
         let conv_tr1 = encodec::conv_transpose1d_weight_norm(
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/flux/sampling.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/flux/sampling.rs
index f3f0eafd..cdfef043 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/flux/sampling.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/flux/sampling.rs
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ pub fn get_noise(
     width: usize,
     device: &Device,
 ) -> Result<Tensor> {
-    let height = (height + 15) / 16 * 2;
-    let width = (width + 15) / 16 * 2;
+    let height = height.div_ceil(16) * 2;
+    let width = width.div_ceil(16) * 2;
     Tensor::randn(0f32, 1., (num_samples, 16, height, width), device)
 }
 
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ pub fn get_schedule(num_steps: usize, shift: Option<(usize, f64, f64)>) -> Vec<f
 
 pub fn unpack(xs: &Tensor, height: usize, width: usize) -> Result<Tensor> {
     let (b, _h_w, c_ph_pw) = xs.dims3()?;
-    let height = (height + 15) / 16;
-    let width = (width + 15) / 16;
+    let height = height.div_ceil(16);
+    let width = width.div_ceil(16);
     xs.reshape((b, height, width, c_ph_pw / 4, 2, 2))? // (b, h, w, c, ph, pw)
         .permute((0, 3, 1, 4, 2, 5))? // (b, c, h, ph, w, pw)
         .reshape((b, c_ph_pw / 4, height * 2, width * 2))
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/mamba.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/mamba.rs
index a29f2619..dfae0af3 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/mamba.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/mamba.rs
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ impl Config {
     }
 
     fn dt_rank(&self) -> usize {
-        (self.d_model + 15) / 16
+        self.d_model.div_ceil(16)
     }
 
     fn d_inner(&self) -> usize {
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/metavoice.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/metavoice.rs
index 92d3ffba..66896388 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/metavoice.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/metavoice.rs
@@ -716,7 +716,7 @@ pub mod transformer {
                 None => {
                     let hidden_dim = self.dim * 4;
                     let n_hidden = ((2 * hidden_dim) as f64 / 3.) as usize;
-                    (n_hidden + 255) / 256 * 256
+                    n_hidden.div_ceil(256) * 256
                 }
             }
         }
diff --git a/candle-transformers/src/models/whisper/audio.rs b/candle-transformers/src/models/whisper/audio.rs
index 8490533c..cd04e16f 100644
--- a/candle-transformers/src/models/whisper/audio.rs
+++ b/candle-transformers/src/models/whisper/audio.rs
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ pub fn log_mel_spectrogram_<T: Float>(
     let samples = {
         let mut samples_padded = samples.to_vec();
         let to_add = n_len * fft_step - samples.len();
-        samples_padded.extend(std::iter::repeat(zero).take(to_add));
+        samples_padded.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(zero, to_add));
         samples_padded
     };
 
diff --git a/candle-wasm-examples/whisper/src/audio.rs b/candle-wasm-examples/whisper/src/audio.rs
index b87f7df1..d3c0bb7e 100644
--- a/candle-wasm-examples/whisper/src/audio.rs
+++ b/candle-wasm-examples/whisper/src/audio.rs
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ fn log_mel_spectrogram_<T: Float + std::fmt::Display>(
     let samples = {
         let mut samples_padded = samples.to_vec();
         let to_add = n_len * fft_step - samples.len();
-        samples_padded.extend(std::iter::repeat(zero).take(to_add));
+        samples_padded.extend(std::iter::repeat_n(zero, to_add));
         samples_padded
     };