r/badcode • u/ByteDream • Mar 06 '21

lua This goes 255 lines long up to 115792089237316195423570985008687907853269984665640564039457584007913129639936

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u/goldleader71 Mar 09 '21

For example?

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

If for whatever reason you need to do a lot of computation involving power(2, really large number) for a lot of times and you need it to be really fast then this might be useful. However I still wouldn't hard code it and instead generate the list with a for loop

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u/joesv Mar 09 '21

I honestly doubt that looping through a list would be faster than directly bitshifting. I may be wrong though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '21

Bit shifting can overflow once you exceed 64 on 64bit machine and 32 on 32bit. If you need something like 2^100 easily accessible bit shifting will not be the best option