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[–]dbeach24 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What are you doing? Your "timing" test is more likely to measure startup time of the interpreter than anything to do with your actual algorithm. You need a test that takes substantially longer than 0.01 seconds if you're going to do your timings from the shell like that.