Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:24:35 -0400, Gideon Simpson wrote:
> How does python (or numpy/scipy) do exponentiation? If I do x**p, where
> p is some positive integer, will it compute x*x*...*x (p times), or will
> it use logarithms?
For floats it will call operating system's pow, which supposedly is
opt
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Keith Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Gideon Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> How does python (or numpy/scipy) do exponentiation? If I do x**p,
>> where p is some positive integer, will it compute x*x*...*x (p times),
>> o
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Gideon Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How does python (or numpy/scipy) do exponentiation? If I do x**p,
> where p is some positive integer, will it compute x*x*...*x (p times),
> or will it use logarithms?
Here are some examples:
>> np.array([[1,2], [3,4]])
How does python (or numpy/scipy) do exponentiation? If I do x**p,
where p is some positive integer, will it compute x*x*...*x (p times),
or will it use logarithms?
-gideon
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