From:	Radical NetSurfer <radsmail AT juno DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Generating Exponents FAST!
Date:	Tue, 22 May 2001 04:53:31 -0400
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This is the problem:

all you have to work with is     

signed short ep;

NOW, you want to generate double precision values of the form:   

 10 ^ ep,

 pow(10, ep);  is one obvious approach

Which requires the time and computational overhead of whatever
is involved in  pow() function....

IS THERE A MORE DIRECT ROUTE to generating 10 ^ ep?

These are the values I need, based on  +3, +2, +1, 0, -1, -2, -3,
etc.:   1000, 100, 10, 1, 0.1, 0.01, 0.001, 0.0001,  etc.

Any suggestion appreciated! thanks!

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