On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 09:43:56 -0600, Charles R Harris wrote: > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilb...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Are there any plans to add support for decimal floating point > > arithmetic, as defined in the 2008 revision of the IEEE 754 standard > > [0], in numpy? > > > > > Not at the moment. There is currently no hardware or C support and adding > new types to numpy isn't trivial. You can get some limited Decimal > functionality by using python classes and object arrays, for instance the > Decimal class in the python decimal module, but the performance isn't great. > > What is your particular interest in decimal support?
Primarily avoiding catastrophic cancellation when subtracting large values. I was planning to use the decimal class, but was curious whether support for the IEEE standard was coming any time soon. Thanks, Mike _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
