paul rubin added the comment: I like the idea of having some integer math functions like this in the stdlib; whether in the math module or elsewhere doesn't matter much. In particular I remember having to implement xgcd on several separate occasions for unrelated applications, each time requiring about the same head scratching as before, and wishing it was in the stdlib so that could be avoided. This type of function is complicated enough to not rattle immediately off the fingertips, but not complicated enough to be worth looking up in a reference book.
http://bugs.python.org/issue457066 has some discussion of xgcd and modular inverses. ---------- nosy: +phr __________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2138> __________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
