On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Chris <fonnesbeck@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm pretty sure this shouldn't happen: > > In [1]: from numpy import min > > In [2]: min(5000, 4) > Out[2]: 5000 The way you're calling it is working like this: min((5000,) , axis=4) so you'd need to do this instead: min((5000,4))