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Author skrah
Recipients Ramchandra Apte, andrea.bergamini, ezio.melotti, mark.dickinson, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, skrah
Date 2012-07-25.14:03:26
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Ramchandra Apte <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
> > [+1 for removing pow from the builtins and shunting three-argument pow to the math module in Python 5000000.]
> Anybody who uses pow with three is doing something mathematical and has most likely imported math already.

Wouldn't that reinforce the misconception that math is for arbitrary precision
number theoretical functions? The OP used it for cryptography.
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2012-07-25 14:03:27skrahsetrecipients: + skrah, rhettinger, mark.dickinson, pitrou, ezio.melotti, r.david.murray, Ramchandra Apte, serhiy.storchaka, andrea.bergamini
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