[Numpy-discussion] please change mean to use dtype=float

[Robert Kern]

Sebastian Haase wrote:
> I know that having too much knowledge of the details often makes one 
> forget what the "newcomers" will do and expect.

Please be more careful with such accusations. Repeated frequently, they can 
become quite insulting.

> We are only talking 
> about people that will a) work with single-precision data (e.g. large 
> scale-image analysis) and who b) will tend to "just use the default" 
> (dtype)  --- How else can I say this: these people will just assume that 
> arr.mean() *is* the mean of arr.

I don't understand what you mean, here. arr.mean() is almost never *the* mean of 
arr. Double precision can't fix that.

-- 
Robert Kern

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  an underlying truth."
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