in reply to Help w/ Code Optimization
You can use the C library's pow() function, so long as your numbers don't need Math::BigFloat treatment:.
Very fast.$ perl -MPOSIX=pow -e 'print pow(500000,1/5),$/' 13.7972966146122
After Compline,
Zaxo
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