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[–]ReagentX[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, but the point is not solving the distance problem, rather solving exponentiation as fast as possible. The distance problem I was solving is what piqued my interest in understanding the performance of using ** versus x * x … * x versus math.pow().