> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:26:36 +0200, Mark Bakker wrote: >> > I don't understand why ceil and floor return real values [snip] >> > Wouldn't an integer make more sense?
On 7/28/2010 9:39 AM, Pauli Virtanen wrote: > Which integer? Only arbitrary-size integers (Python longs) are able to > span the whole floating-point range, but we don't necessarily want > np.ceil(some_array) > to start returning object arrays, because of efficiency reasons. Makes sense. But couldn't a ``dtype`` argument still be useful? Alan Isaac _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
