Math Quiz 9

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by Greg Woelki

I have since made both programs about 2.5x faster by using the polar distance formula to cut down on trig functions (really add up after a few billion trials), by cutting the number of angles generated from 2 to 1 in each trial of the line segment problem, and by switching to using the math module trig functions instead of the NumPy ones.

You can shave a few more CPU cycles by storing the squares of the radii rather than the radii, so you only need two square roots per segment, rather than three. I am not familiar with this detail in python, but in most languages, the dedicated sqrt(x) function is faster than x ** 0.5.