On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 7:14 PM Marten van Kerkwijk < m.h.vankerkw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On a more general note, if we change to a ufunc, it will get us stuck with > sinc being the normalized version, where the units of the input have to be > in the half-cycles preferred by signal-processing people rather than the > radians preferred by mathematicians. > > In this respect, note that there is an outstanding issue about whether to > allow one to choose between the two: > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/13457 (which itself was raised > following an inconclusive PR that tried to add a keyword argument for it). > > Adding a keyword argument is much easier for a general function than for a > ufunc. > > I'd be tempted to have two sinc functions with the different normalizations. Of course, one could say the same about trig functions in both radians and degrees. If I had to pick one, I'd choose sinc in radians, but I think that ship has sailed. Chuck
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