On 2021-01-14 at 17:54:55 +0000, Alan Gauld via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote:
> My question is: why do we even have a sqrt() in the > math module given that pow() and ** are already there? Probably because the standard C math library has such a function, and Python's math module is (or at least was) supposed be a thin wrapper around that library. For completeness, C doesn't have a exponentiation operator. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list