Re: [Tutor] Fastest (x,y) distance calculation

[Magnus Lycka]

Raymond Hettinger:
> Distance calculations are much cheaper if you store the coordinates
> as complex numbers and use abs().

I tried that, and the distance calculation (pos-tmp.rect)
got much quicker, but abs() ate up all the improvement. :(

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