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  Re: A method creat uniform thick shell  
From: Kenneth
Date: 30 Jul 2018 10:15:00
Message: <web.5b5f1c89dce0719aa47873e10@news.povray.org>
"Tor Olav Kristensen" <tor### [at] TOBEREMOVEDgmailcom> wrote:

> Note that pow(x, 2) may be faster to evaluate than x*x.

I thought that the opposite was true, that x*x would be less 'computationally
expensive' than invoking the  pow  function. I honestly don't know for sure; but
I recall something being said about this in an older thread.


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