At 08:40 AM 2/20/2006 -0800, you wrote:
>I have an equation that multiplies by 1:
>
>1 * A^ .3241
>
>Is there any reason I have to multiply be 1?  Just trying to save a little 
>program space and execution time.
>
>Thanks
>
>John

More context might help. Where are you getting the equation from? How are
you implementing it?  In any case, multiplying a floating point number by
1 will probably not do anything, and even if the optimizer isn't smart
enough to get rid of it entirely, it won't likely use much time or room,
especially compared to that nasty x^y function (assuming A is a variable
so it cannot be pre-computed).

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