Sebastian Haase wrote: >Hello all, >I just had someone from my lab coming to my desk saying: >"My god - SciPy is really stupid .... >An array with only positive numbers claims to have a negative mean !! "? > > > >I was asking about this before ... the reason was of course that her array was >of dtype int32 and had many large values to cause an overflow (wrap >around) . > >Now that the default for axis is None (for all functions having an axis >argument), >can we please change dtype to default to float64 !? > >
The default is float64 now (as long as you are not using numpy.oldnumeric). I suppose more appropriately, we could reduce over float for integer data-types when calculating the mean as well (since a floating point is returned anyway). -Travis ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/numpy-discussion
