Kevin Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mea culpa on the msqrt example, however I still think it is wrong to get > a complex square-root back when a real valued result is expected and exists.
No, in floating point you accumulate error. Those 1e-22j's are part of the actual result. Some systems like MATLAB implicitly silent such small imaginary components; we don't. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
