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22Strength Reduction
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25Strength reduction replaces an expansive operation by a cheaper one, such as
26multiplication by addition or subtraction, multiplication instead of
27exponentiation; use compound assignment operators such as += wherever possible,
28changing code of the form a[i] = a[i] + x to a[i] += x, since they result in
29fewer bytecode instructions; use shifts instead of multiplication by powers of
30two, etc.
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32For example:
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34	x ** 2  = x * x
35	2.0 * x = x + x
36	x / 2   = x * 0.5
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39Induction Variable
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42A variable is called an induction variables of a loop if every time the variable
43changes values it is incremented or decrmented by some constant.
44Basic induction variables i whose only assignments within the loop is of the
45form i += c, where c is a constant.
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