On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 23:43, Mark Wiebe <mwwiebe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Travis Oliphant <oliphant@enthought.com>
> wrote:

>> It would be good to see a simple test case and understand why the boolean
>> multiplied by the scalar double is becoming a float16.     In other words,
>>  why does
>> (1-test)*t
>> return a float16 array
>> This does not sound right at all and it would be good to understand why
>> this occurs, now.   How are you handling scalars multiplied by arrays in
>> general?
>
> The reason it's float16 is that the first function in the multiply function
> list for which both types can be safely cast to the output type,

Except that float64 cannot be safely cast to float16.

That's true, but it was already being done this way with respect to float32. Rereading the documentation for min_scalar_type, I see the explanation could elaborate on the purpose of the function further. Float64 cannot be safely cast to float32, but this is what NumPy does:


Yep, I remember noticing that on occasion. I didn't think it was really the right thing to do...

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Chuck