Product of an empty sequence

[Ivan Vilata i Balaguer]

Today I was surprised by this::

>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.__version__
'1.0.dev3341'
>>> numpy.prod(())
1.0

Wouldn't be 0.0 a more natural answer?  I understand that 1 is neutral
on product operations, but I still can't see why 1.0 is a better answer.
 Sorry for the clueless question, but I have searched lists, docstrings
and web and found nothing about this.

(BTW, the definitions of ``prod()`` and ``product()`` are still
identical as noted by Sebastian Haase some time ago.)

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