On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 08:13, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 17:31, Andreas Eisele <andreas.eis...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I sometimes make use of the fact that the built-in pow() function has an > > optional third argument for modulo calculation, which is handy when dealing > > with tasks from number theory, very large numbers, problems from Project > > Euler, etc. I was unpleasantly surprised that math.pow() does not have this > > feature, hence "from math import *" overwrites the built-in pow() function > > with a function that lacks functionality. I am wondering for the rationale > > of this. Does math.pow() do anything that the built-in version can not do, > > and if not, why is it even there? > > It is useful for when you want the pure floating point power which has > an approximately fixed computational cost (unlike integer powers). > Perhaps it would have been better if it was named fpow similar to fsum > vs sum. >
It's called math.pow. That on its own should be a strong indication that it's designed to work with floats. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
