On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:48, Alan G Isaac <ais...@american.edu> wrote: >> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:36 +0200, Mark Bakker wrote: >>> > I don't understand why ceil and floor return real values [snip] >>> > Wouldn't an integer make more sense? > > On 7/28/2010 9:39 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: >> Which integer? Only arbitrary-size integers (Python longs) are able to >> span the whole floating-point range, but we don't necessarily want >> np.ceil(some_array) >> to start returning object arrays, because of efficiency reasons. > > Makes sense. But couldn't a ``dtype`` argument still be useful?
Probably, but you would have to add it to all ufuncs. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
