[Numpy-discussion] reduction

[lorenzo bolla]

oh, I forgot. It happens with "divide", too.
lorenzo.


On 1/8/07, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  On 1/8/07, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 1/8/07, lorenzo bolla < lbolla at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > Hello all!
> > > I'm fairly new to Numpy and, while experimenting, I found a strange (
> > > i.e. not expected by me!) behaviour of arrays.
> > > I tried this (in comment what I get):
> > >
> > > x = arange(4)      # x = array([0,1,2,3])
> > >
> > > def myadd(x,y):    # re-define the binary sum function
> > >     return x + y
> > >
> > > reduce(myadd, x)     # 6, as expected
> > >  add.reduce(x)     # 6, as expected
> > >
> > > def mysub(x,y):   # re-define the binary diff function
> > >     return x - y
> > >
> > > reduce(mysub, x)    # -6, as expected
> > > subtract.reduce(x)    # 2 ---> WHY?
> > >
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> > It might be a bug in the implementation. What is happening is that
> > instead of subtracting the new number from the previous result, the previous
> > result is being subtracted from the new number. So you start with 0, and the
> > sequence of operations continues:
> >
> > 0 = 0 - 0
> > 1 = 1 - 0
> > 1 = 2 - 1
> > 2 = 3 - 1
> > 2 = 4 - 2
> > 3 = 5 - 2
> >
> > Definitely a bug. Want to file a ticket?
> >
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> Or maybe not a bug. It depends on what reduce means for this operation. So
> either a bug or something that could use a bit of documentation.
>
> Chuck
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