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?
Thanks in advance for any enlightening comment on this.
Best regards, Andreas
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