[Numpy-discussion] What type should / return in python 3k whenapplied to two integer types?

[Charles R Harris]

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Charles R Harris <
charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 2009/8/27 Nadav Horesh <nadavh at visionsense.com>
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>> Double is the natural choice, there is a possibility of long double
>> (float96 on x86 or float128 on amd64) where there is no precision loss. Is
>> this option portable?
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> Not really. The long double type can be a bit weird and varies from
> architecture to architecture.
>

The real problem is deciding what to do with integer precisions that fit in
float32.  At present we have

In [2]: x = ones(1, dtype=int16)

In [3]: true_divide(x,x)
Out[3]: array([ 1.], dtype=float32)

Chuck
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