On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:05:11PM -0400, David Warde-Farley wrote:
> Comment from the peanut gallery: this seems like a supremely odd
> function to have, since int32s cannot be safely represented in 32-bit
> floating point anyway (nor int64s in float64, but there's not much you
> can do about it without resorting to software arithmetic). In most
> cases, I would think float64 should be preferred.

We got complaints from users that had their data in 32 bit to save
memory, and got it converted in 64bit.

Now whether that logic should be applied to ints or only to floats is a
valid question.

G

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