On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:23 PM, T J <tjhnson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm inclined to go with logaddexp and add logsumexp as an alias for
> logaddexp.reduce. But I'll wait until tomorrow to see if there are more
> comments.

When working in other bases, it seems like it would be good to avoid
having to convert to base e and then back to base 2 with each function
call (for example). Is there any desire add similar functions for
other standard bases?

I suppose that depends on who you ask ;) What is your particular interest in these other bases and why would they be better than working in base e and converting at the end? The only one I could see really having a fast implementation is log2. In fact, I think the standard log starts in log2 by pulling in the floating point exponent and then using some sort of rational approximation of log2 over the range [1,2) on the mantissa.

Chuck