Ah, shit. Stupid "from math import *" Thanks.<BR><BR>[edit] And it looks like it made hardly any difference anyway. Python implementation + psyco was within a few percent of the native pow().

# Python has a set of built-in math functions, including an extensive math module, that allows you to perform mathematical tasks on numbers. # Built-in Math Functions # The min() and max() functions ...

Python has a set of built-in math functions, including an extensive math module, that allows you to perform mathematical tasks on numbers. Python has also a built-in module called math, which extends ...