On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:48 PM, Charles R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is your particular interest in these other bases and why would > they be better than working in base e and converting at the end?
The interest is in information theory, where quantities are (standardly) represented in bits. So log2 quantities are often stored by the user and then passed into functions or classes. The main reason I'd like to shy away from conversions is that I also make use of generators/iterators and having next() convert to bits before each yield is not ideal (as these things are often slow enough and will be called many times). >The only one I could see really having a fast implementation is log2. No disagreement here :) _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
