[Tutor] Exponential function

[Alan Gauld]

On 15/02/17 04:43, eryk sun wrote:

>> value = 1e5  # or 3e7 or whatever...
> 
> 10**5 is an int and 1e5 is a float. 

Good point, I'd forgotten about that distinction.

> Replacing 10**5 with 100000 is a compile-time optimization

And didn't know about that one.

Thanks for the clarification.

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