[Numpy-discussion] Integers to integer powers

[Nathaniel Smith]

On May 20, 2016 12:44 PM, <josef.pktd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> can numpy cast to float by default for power or **?

Maybe? The question is whether there are any valid use cases for getting
ints back:

>>> np.array([1, 2, 3]) ** 2
array([1, 4, 9])

It's not 100% obvious to me but intuitively this seems like an operation
that we probably want to support? Especially since there's a reasonable
range of int64 values that can't be represented exactly as floats.

-n
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