On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Andre John Cruz wrote:
> i know this has already been way off topic :) but exponentiation with an
> integer exponent and base 2 is easier done by having bit shifts <<
>
> -andre
>
but bit shift << consumes much less cpu cycles than
exponentiation of 2 to an int.
-rowel
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