[SciPy-user] Vector mean calculation?

[Lance Boyle]

On Apr 21, 2005, at 5:41 PM, Fernando.Perez at colorado.edu wrote:

> Quoting Thomas Davidoff <davidoff at haas.berkeley.edu>:
>
>> I have a vector with min equal to 412.  Why am I getting a negative 
>> mean?
>
> Without more details, it's quite difficult to be sure.  Most likely, 
> because
> it's very long and of integer type (ints are 32 bit objects, so you are
> effectively doing mod 2^31 arithmetic with negative wraparound).
>
Why does Python allow modular arithmetic when the user doesn't request 
modular arithmetic?

Lance