On 4/26/2011 3:27 PM, Dan Stromberg wrote:
for 0<= i< 10000000:x *= 0.8 #x += 0.01 print x
In my WinXP (Athlon), 3.2 standard install x=1.0 print(x) for i in range(10000000): x *= 0.8 x += 0.01 print(x)takes about 3 1/2 secs with addition commented out and about 4 when included as above, which is about what I would expect.
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