On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 17:31, 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?
It is useful for when you want the pure floating point power which has an approximately fixed computational cost (unlike integer powers). Perhaps it would have been better if it was named fpow similar to fsum vs sum. -- Oscar -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
