[SciPy-Dev] Code review for trapz update

[Sturla Molden]

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Sturla



On 11/03/15 02:07, Paul Kuin wrote:
> Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 12:11 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com
> <mailto:sturla.molden at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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?
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>     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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