[Numpy-discussion] Floating Point Difference between numpy and numarray

[Hanni Ali]

Sebastian you legend, that seems to be it.

Thank you very much.

>>> matrix.mean(dtype='float64')
0.41582015156745911

What seems odd is that numpy doesn't do this on it's own...



2008/9/3 Sebastian Stephan Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net>

> Hi,
>
> just guessing here. But numarray seems to calculate the result in a
> bigger dataype, while numpy uses float32 which is the input arrays size
> (at least I thought so, trying it confused me right now ...). In any
> case, maybe the difference will be gone if you
> use .mean(dtype='float64') (or whatever dtype numarray actually uses,
> which seems to be "numarray.MaximumType(a.type())" where a is the array
> to take the mean).
>
> Sebastian
>
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