(-1)**1000
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Oct 22 13:15:22 EDT 2014
On 10/22/2014 4:27 AM, ast wrote:
> Hello
>
> If i am writing (-1)**1000 on a python program, will the
> interpreter do (-1)*(-1)*...*(-1) or something clever ?
The answer depends on the implementation.
> In fact i have (-1)**N with N an integer potentially big.
>
> I do some tests that suggest that Python is clever
You probably mean "CPython is clever". Other implementations may or may
not have the same optimizations.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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