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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients mark.dickinson, pablogsal, rhettinger, skrah, steven.daprano, tim.peters
Date 2019-02-19.10:35:09
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+1 for the pow(value, -1, modulus) spelling. It should raise `ValueError` if `value` and `modulus` are not relatively prime.

It would feel odd to me _not_ to extend this to `pow(value, n, modulus)` for all negative `n`, again valid only only if `value` is relatively prime to `modulus`.
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