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Questions - pow

Why doesn't x**y%z work like pow(x, y, z) if y is negative?

I have these values for x, y and z: x = 1402709587326125487755933770599785022011554878478352915458023572822263891029946822919389113025226898265 y = -165315017260956059588958700827102552010086867429006...
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Gerald

python

math

modulo

pow

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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When you compute x ** y % z you do it in two steps: (x ** y) % z. The very first step x ** y returns floating point fraction which is by far below 5.562684646268003E-309 (which is the minimum possib...
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Dmitry Bychenko

Python - measure function execution time with decorator

I have the next problem: For example, I have a function (this is just an example to make things simple) called my_pow, that takes two arguments and return a^b, and it looks like this: def my_pow(a, b)...
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Roman Leontovych

python

time

decorator

pow

Votes: 0

Answers: 1

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Your function is running in 0.0001 something seconds. But since the number is so large, it takes almost 3 seconds to print it. So your code is working, I/O(print) is just slow. You can see it yourself...
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Robin Dillen

Combining elements of an integer array into a single integer variable

I am writing a simple C++ program that should combine all elements of an integer array to form one number. Eg. {4,5,6} --> should be 456. But my output is one less than the original number. i.e ins...
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Jimmy15

c++

arrays

for-loop

pow

Votes: 0

Answers: 5

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As mentioned by Bob__, pow is a function for doubles and other floating-point types. For this specific algorithm, instead, we can do this: int A[5] = {4,5,6,7,8}; int lengthA = 5; int num = 0; for(in...
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jh316

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