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The advantage in speed when using bit shifting
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bitshiftperf.txt
[kiran@Kirans-MacBook-Pro:~]
% python -m timeit 'x = 1 << 100000'
10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0278 usec per loop
[kiran@Kirans-MacBook-Pro:~]
% python -m timeit 'x = pow(2,100000)'
1000 loops, best of 3: 334 usec per loop
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