diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index c6e48bd..c69b3ea 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Remove unused file Python/fmod.c.
+
 - Patch #1675423: PyComplex_AsCComplex() now tries to convert an object
   to complex using its __complex__() method before falling back to the
   __float__() method. Therefore, the functions in the cmath module now
diff --git a/Python/fmod.c b/Python/fmod.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 919c6cc..0000000
--- a/Python/fmod.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-
-/* Portable fmod(x, y) implementation for systems that don't have it */
-
-#include "pyconfig.h"
-
-#include "pyport.h"
-#include <errno.h>
-
-double
-fmod(double x, double y)
-{
-	double i, f;
-	
-	if (y == 0.0) {
-		errno = EDOM;
-		return 0.0;
-	}
-	
-	/* return f such that x = i*y + f for some integer i
-	   such that |f| < |y| and f has the same sign as x */
-	
-	i = floor(x/y);
-	f = x - i*y;
-	if ((x < 0.0) != (y < 0.0))
-		f = f-y;
-	return f;
-}