[Numpy-discussion] Weird clipping when astype(int) used on large numbers

[Charles R Harris]

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 1:27 PM, Tony S Yu <tonyyu at mit.edu> wrote:

> I ran into this weird behavior with astype(int)
>
> In [57]: a = np.array(1E13)
>
> In [58]: a.astype(int)
>
> Out[58]: array(-2147483648)
>
> I understand why large numbers need to be clipped when converting to
> int (although I would have expected some sort of warning), but I'm
> puzzled by the negative value. Shouldn't the above code clip the value
> to the max positive int (2147483647)... and maybe issue a warning?
>

Try more precision:

In [2]: a = np.array(1e13)

In [3]: a.astype(np.int64)
Out[3]: array(10000000000000)

Chuck
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