Avast! Why be there builtins divmod and pow, when operators **, /, and % should be good enough for ya? It runs counter to TOOWTDI, I be thinking. Arr.
Well, divmod(x, y) does both / and % in one shot, which can be very useful. pow(x, y[, z]) has an optional third argument ((x**y) % z), which is necessary for really large numbers like the ones you play with in cryptography.
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