From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject: Re: Generating Exponents FAST!
Date: 22 May 2001 10:26:49 GMT
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Radical NetSurfer <radsmail AT juno DOT com> wrote:

>  pow(10, ep);  is one obvious approach

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

... which may easily be faster than anything you could come up with.
Go figure before you make blind assumptions about the quality of
library code --- you do have access to all the sources, so why not
peek into them to check for yourself?

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

Of course: e.g. to not generate them at all. Precompute a table of
such values, if you really only need so few of them.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.