When you care about efficiency, I'd think this would be better:

  const=4/3*3.14159E0 /* in the initialization */
  volume=const*radius**3 /* inside the loop */

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As for writing formulas, I prefer to follow a well-known formula, thus:

   volume = 4/3 * 3.14159 * radius**3

However, if I'm interested in efficiency, I'd prefer

   volume = 4 * 3.14159E0 / 3 * radius**3

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