If you need an identity for minimization and maximization, a number "I_max" for which "max(I_max, x) == x" and "I_min" for which "min(I_min, x) == x", you could use the extreme values of the given integer type.
For instance, if your integer type is np.int64, use - I_max = np.iinfo(np.int64).min (which is -9223372036854775808) - I_min = np.iinfo(np.int64).max (which is 9223372036854775807). These numbers are effectively like negative infinity and positive infinity for the np.int64 integer type because there is no integer value less than or greater than them, respectively, just as -np.inf and np.inf are the extreme values of np.float64. (Be explicit in your choice between np.int32 and np.int64, though!) If these extreme (and ugly-looking) values are the output of your algorithm, you could catch them and replace them with something else. But there's no possibility of introducing infinite values to the integer types because the NumPy numeric types correspond to numeric types in hardware, which haven't changed in many decades. Every 64 bit-pattern in np.int64 corresponds to some integer; there's no room to add a new one. It would have to be a whole new integer type, with different mathematical rules than hardware instructions provide (so, emulated in software). I'm not a member of the NumPy team—I'm only asserting the above because I'm guessing with 99.9999% certainty that this is what they'd say. Cheers, -- Jim On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 5:24 PM <2601536...@qq.com> wrote: > Hi, I am a student and I have very little knowledge about python and > numpy, so my suggestion may seem really stupid. > One day I was use numpy to implement Floyd algorithm and then I found the > data type of np.inf is float, so i can not use min or max function because > other data type are int. So I wonder whether you can add a new inf whose > data type is int. Thanks > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: jpivar...@gmail.com >
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