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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients Ramchandra Apte, andrea.bergamini, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah
Date 2012-07-25.14:13:10
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> 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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2012-07-25 14:13:11mark.dickinsonsetrecipients: + mark.dickinson, rhettinger, pitrou, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, skrah, Ramchandra Apte, serhiy.storchaka, andrea.bergamini
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