Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> Wouldn't that reinforce the misconception that math is for arbitrary
> precision number theoretical functions?

Perhaps.  We already have math.factorial, though;  adding math.powmod wouldn't 
seem so much of a stretch.  Just to be clear, I'm not seriously proposing this 
for any version of Python before 4.0; apologies for derailing the issue thread.

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