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Author rhettinger
Recipients rhettinger
Date 2015-04-25.15:35:47
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Replace all the _sqrt(x) calls with x ** 0.5, improving the visual appearance and providing a modest speed improvement.

$ python3 -m timeit -s 'from math import sqrt' 'sqrt(3.14)'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.032 usec per loop
$ python3 -m timeit -s 'from math import sqrt' '3.14 ** 0.5'
100000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0101 usec per loop
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