On 29-Nov-09, at 8:15 PM, Robin wrote: > There have been previous discussions on this (but I can't find them > now) and I believe the current default was chosen deliberately. I > think it is the view of the numpy developers that the n divisor has > more desireable properties in most cases than the traditional n-1 - > see this paper by Travis Oliphant for details: > http://hdl.handle.net/1877/438
One such relevant discussion preceded this informative rant by Robert Kern: http://mail.scipy.org/pipermail/scipy-user/2008-December/019118.html David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
