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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Problem in Turbo Pascal 4.0
Summary: multiply is faster than divide
Message-ID: <1989Dec31.145504.2373@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 31 Dec 89 14:55:04 GMT
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Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <4660@ur-cc.UUCP> lowj_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (John Alan Low, aka "Travis" Low) writes:
>     The best solution in terms of speed was:
>          Make x an integer (start at 10) and increment by 1 each time. Where
>          x is used in the loop, subsitute x/100. Terminate when x = 30.

Just for the record, if you substitute 0.01*x it will run faster.

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Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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