Faster than...
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Hello, I've noticed that doing a multiplication is faster than a power of.
e.g.
a*a is much much much faster than a^2
probably already been discovered
Marg
has been aldready discovered, youll get your time of fame soon ;)
How do you do that ^ symbol? Is it shift and some key, or is it a special character in the character map?
Is that a joke?
By the way, it's called a caret.
Is that a joke?
How can you tell, oh mighty brainful one?
Hey, he might have copied/pasted it...
Try {SHIFT}+ 6 for ^ US/English Keyboard... if you are using another country keyboard it might be and {ALT}+*** thing... where *** = number to input while holding ALT
-Rook ñ
Ohhhhh sarcasm.... I get it...
press CTRL-SHIFT F2 while pressing both the primary joystick buttons and you'll get a flipside character:
\/
Oh god how did I not see above the 6 key?!! I am such an imbecile!!
I've been living without powers for a long time. Now I can prove that my math textbook is stupid :D It claims that 2 raised to the power of 2, 6 times, is impossible to calculate, even with a supercomputer, because it's so huge. (note that the text book is 10 years old)
Argh no!! It's a frickin' float! Only took 1 millisecond though :D