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Old 10-29-2004, 06:43 AM   #6 (permalink)
theFez
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yeah, in the case of straight up squaring the s*s is definitely faster. but for situations where you need to raise to higher powers or to an unknown power (variable) the pow function would be better.

from what i understand there is no exponentation operator in c because few processors have exponentation instructions.
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