Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy.mean still broken for large float32arrays

2014-07-24 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 7/24/2014 4:42 PM, Eelco Hoogendoorn wrote: > This isn't a bug report, but rather a feature request. I'm not sure statement this is correct. The mean of a float32 array can certainly be computed as a float32. Currently this is not necessarily what happens, not even approximately. That feels a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy.mean still broken for large float32arrays

2014-07-24 Thread Eelco Hoogendoorn
t; Sent: ‎24-‎7-‎2014 20:04 To: "numpy-discussion@scipy.org" Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy.mean still broken for large float32arrays Le 24/07/2014 12:55, Thomas Unterthiner a écrit : > I don't agree. The problem is that I expect `mean` to do something > reasonable. T

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy.mean still broken for large float32arrays

2014-07-24 Thread Eelco Hoogendoorn
4 18:09 To: "Discussion of Numerical Python" Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy.mean still broken for large float32arrays On 7/24/2014 5:59 AM, Eelco Hoogendoorn wrote to Thomas: > np.mean isn't broken; your understanding of floating point number is. This comment seems to conflate se

Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy.mean still broken for large float32arrays

2014-07-24 Thread Eelco Hoogendoorn
ssage- From: "Julian Taylor" Sent: ‎24-‎7-‎2014 14:56 To: "Discussion of Numerical Python" Subject: Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy.mean still broken for large float32arrays On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Fabien wrote: > Hi all, > > On 24.07.2014 11:59, Eelco H