PEP 303: Extend divmod() for Multiple Divisors

[Erik Max Francis]

Thomas Bellman wrote:

> Hmm, on python-dev I have got someone saying it's called 'base',
> and someone else thinks it's called 'radix'.

According to the book I used (_APL: An Interactive Approach_) it's also
called "base value."  I'm not really sure if APL operators really have
any official names beyond their symbols, so it might all be academic
anyway.

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