> On 30 Mar 2023, at 10:15, Andreas Eisele <andreas.eis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I sometimes make use of the fact that the built-in pow() function has an
> optional third argument for modulo calculation, which is handy when dealing
> with tasks from number theory, very large numbers, problems from Project
> Euler, etc. I was unpleasantly surprised that math.pow() does not have this
> feature, hence "from math import *" overwrites the built-in pow() function
> with a function that lacks functionality. I am wondering for the rationale of
> this. Does math.pow() do anything that the built-in version can not do, and
> if not, why is it even there?
Maybe math.pow() aways using IEEE 754(?) float point via the C runtime math
routines.
pow() will give int answer if called with int args.
Barry
> Thanks in advance for any enlightening comment on this.
> Best regards, Andreas
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