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From: nevin1@ihlpf.ATT.COM (00704A-Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Power (Re: all those :-)
Message-ID: <3461@ihlpf.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 88 02:37:08 GMT
References: <302@Aragorn.dde.uucp> <7139@brl-smoke.ARPA>
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In article <7139@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:

>
>If you do much geometric programming at all, you quickly realize
>that the squaring operator (expr ** 2) is quite heavily used.

(pointer to pointer to 2 is heavily used?? :-))  Yes, but if you know that you
are going to be squaring you can replace it with (expr * expr) (possibly
needing temp variables depending on the side effects concerning expr), or write
a macro to do it for you.
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