Probably not in any way that's sane since it'll only work for integers, and still requires a pow() call, in addition to the bit shift. On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 6:41 PM Karl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com> wrote: > Someone mentioned some years ago that 10**x is the same thing as > (5**x)<<x. Could perl use this fact in some way to get better results? >Thread Previous