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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2015-04-26.17:26:38
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Gah!  Peephole optimizer!  When you do a timeit for '3.14 ** 0.5', you're just evaluating the time to retrieve a constant!

In general, `**` is going to be both slower *and* less accurate than math.sqrt.  Please don't make this change!
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