[Numpy-discussion] Proposal to make power return float, and other such things.

[Sebastian Berg]

On Di, 2014-02-18 at 11:44 +0000, Sturla Molden wrote:
> Robert Kern <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We're talking about numpy.power(), not just ndarray.__pow__(). The
> > equivalence of the two is indeed an implementation detail, but I do
> > think that it is useful to maintain the equivalence. If we didn't, it
> > would be the only exception, to my knowledge.
> 
> But in this case it makes sence.
> 
> math.pow(2,2) and 2**2 does not do the same. That is how Python behaves.
> 

To be honest, that comparison only makes half sense to me. `math` are
all float (double precision) functions, basically you could just as well
call the library `fmath`...

I am -0.5 right now. `__pow__` already has special behaviour as opposed
to `np.power`, but these are for speed and don't change behaviour. T
he `uint` idea seems to just make things more complicated. If I am aware
of uint vs int, I am already aware I can just cast to float.

- Sebastian

> Sturla
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