On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote:
> I would appreciate a low level solution because I have to iteratively call >> that computation millions of times. Anything more efficient than >> 2.718182**10 may be good. >> > > Umm, what's wrong with > > from math import e # more precision than 2.718182 > print e**10 > Apparently nothing at all is wrong with it: C:\Python25\Lib>python timeit.py -s "import math" "x=math.exp(10)" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.678 usec per loop C:\Python25\Lib>python timeit.py -s "from math import e" "x=e**10" 1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.411 usec per loop -- www.fsrtechnologies.com
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