[Numpy-discussion] type coercion question

[Chris Barker]

On Mar 31, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Perry Greenfield wrote:
> Just to summarize what I see as acceptable choices:
>
> 1) ints promote to Float32 (current behavior)
> 2) ints promote to Float64
> 3) Int32 promotes to Float64, lesser ints promote to Float32 (Numeric
> behavior)

+1 on (2)

I want math.cos(x) to give the same answer as numarray.cos( array( (x) 
) ) as much as possible. I like that Numarray does not do as much 
auto-upcasting as Numeric, but if I want to control the size of my data 
arrays, I'm not going to be passing an int into a floating point 
function. i.e, I can always do:

cos( array( (x), Float32 ) )

Then I would want the result to be a Float32

-Chris


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