"pow" (power) function
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"pow" (power) function

From: Russ <uymqlp502@sneakemail.com>
Date: Thu Mar 16 2006 - 00:39:59 CET



I have a couple of questions for the number crunchers out there:



Does "pow(x,2)" simply square x, or does it first compute logarithms


(as would be necessary if the exponent were not an integer)?



Does "x**0.5" use the same algorithm as "sqrt(x)", or does it use some


other (perhaps less efficient) algorithm based on logarithms?



Thanks,


Russ


Received on Sun Apr 30 11:58:08 2006