I should have posted this question on the numpy list of course, even though floor is imported with pylab.
Off-list, Felix pointed me to the following discussion where some of the reasons are explained why a float is returned rather than an integer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8582741/why-do-pythons-math-ceil-and-math-floor-operations-return-floats-instead-of On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 5:05 PM, Mark Bakker <mark...@gmail.com> wrote: > I expected that floor(x) would return an integer especially since the docs > state: > > Return the floor of the input, element-wise. > > > The floor of the scalar `x` is the largest integer `i`, such that > > `i <= x`. It is often denoted as :math:`\lfloor x \rfloor`. > > > Any reason why it returns a float? Bug/feature? > > > Thanks, Mark >
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