If the author is willing, I'd say both functions are useful. The "geom"
prefix is very fitting.
- Joe
------ Original message------From: Robert KernDate: Fri, Feb 19, 2016 08:00To:
Discussion of Numerical Python;Subject:Re: [Numpy-discussion] proposal: new
logspace without the log in the argumentOn Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:10 PM,
Andrew Nelson <andyf...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> With respect to geomspace proposals: instead of specifying start and end
> values and the number of points I'd like to have an option where I can set
> the start and end points and the ratio. The function would then work out the
> correct number of points to get closest to the end value.
>
> E.g. geomspace(start=1, finish=2, ratio=1.03)
>
> The first entries would be 1.0, 1.03, 1*1.03**2, etc.
>
> I have a requirement for the correct ratio between the points, and it's a
> right bind having to calculate the exact number of points needed.
At the risk of extending the twisty little maze of names, all alike, I would
probably call a function with this signature geomrange() instead. It is more
akin to arange(start, stop, step) than linspace(start, stop, num_steps).
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