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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: why is there not a ipow version of pow?
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:07:05 -0700
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> On Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:00:22 -0700
> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>
>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> I have found over the years that 200 points seems to be best when
>>> performing a numerical integration of a curve.  For me, 200 points
>>> is the point where diminishing returns has set in.  Of course,
>>> YMMV.
>>
>> Surely that depends on which integration method is being used.
>
> That is smaller of my troubles with this post of Lynn.
> The bigger trouble is that my post, to which he "answered" did not talk
> at all about integration.

Yeah.  Not too surprising really, considering the general level
of the discussion -- an overly long thread for a problem that
should take at most 15 minutes to solve just by writing an
ipow() function.