[SciPy-Dev] Code review for trapz update

[Paul Kuin]

Not sure whether to laugh or cry.


On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/03/15 00:23, fizyxnrd wrote:
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> > It appears that there is more use for the current form than I have come
> > across with my adventures in positive-definite quantities.  Is there
> > room for a keyword e.g., unsorted ( so that the call is trapz(y, x=None,
> > dx = 1.0, axis=-1, unsorted=False) where if unsorted is set to True, the
> > data is automatically sorted before integration?
>
> I think a numerical integral routine should only return an approximation
> to the integral. If you sort the data the trapz function is no longer
> returning an approximation to the integral.
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> Sturla
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