[issue39657] Bezout and Chinese Remainder Theorem in the Standard Library?

Mark Dickinson added the comment: Related (imath module discussions): #37132, #40028. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue39657] Bezout and Chinese Remainder Theorem in the Standard Library?

Tim Peters added the comment: Ya, I'll close this, channeling that Raymond would also reject it for now (although he's certainly free to reopen it). There's nothing wrong with adding such functions, but the `math` module is already straying too far from its original intent as a home for

[issue39657] Bezout and Chinese Remainder Theorem in the Standard Library?

Mark Dickinson added the comment: I'm inclined to close this. Raymond, Tim: thoughts? -- assignee: -> mark.dickinson nosy: +rhettinger, tim.peters ___ Python tracker ___

[issue39657] Bezout and Chinese Remainder Theorem in the Standard Library?

Mark Dickinson added the comment: > Should something like the following go in the standard library, most likely > in the math module? I'm not keen. Granted that the math module has exceeded its original remit of "wrappers for libm", but even so, I'd prefer to try to limit it to a basic set

[issue39657] Bezout and Chinese Remainder Theorem in the Standard Library?

New submission from Dennis Sweeney : Should something like the following go in the standard library, most likely in the math module? I know I had to use such a thing before pow(a, -1, b) worked, but Bezout is more general. And many of the easy stackoverflow implementations of CRT