[Tutor] power of 2.718282

[Adam Bark]

According to a quick interactive session and the timeit module it's quicker
to do 2.71828**10 than using math.exp, I'm guessing cos of the function
call.
>>> t=timeit.Timer("2.718282**10")
>>> t.repeat()
[0.073765993118286133, 0.066617012023925781, 0.06807398796081543]

>>> t=timeit.Timer("math.exp(10)", "import math")
>>> t.repeat()
[0.42525100708007812, 0.43169903755187988, 0.4239799976348877]

>>> t=timeit.Timer("exp(10)", "from math import exp")
>>> t.repeat()
[0.36061406135559082, 0.36182284355163574, 0.35887718200683594]

2009/1/13 culpritNr1 <ig2ar-saf1 at yahoo.co.uk>

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> Thanks Marc and Kent and all. math.exp() is what I was looking for.
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