On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:48:53PM -0700, Alexander Kolbasov wrote:
> I was trying to get an average value of a bunch of numbers which could be
> either positive or negative to see whether the average is close to zero. It
> turns out that aggregations (including max, min and avg) treat values as
> unsigned and, thus. do not work as expected for negative values. Do you think
> it is a valid RFE to have version of these aggregations which work on signed
> data?
Yes, definitely valid -- especially since quantize()/lquantize() already
correctly deal with negative values. Apologies for that; not quite sure
why I didn't address max()/min()/avg() when I was getting quantize() and
lquantize() to correctly deal with negative data...
- Bryan
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