[SciPy-dev] Instability in numpy.random.logseries

[Robert Kern]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 16:09, Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 15:58, Alan Jackson <alan@ajackson.org> wrote:
>> For parameter values close to one, the returned valued can be bad.
>>
>> In [242]: np.random.logseries(.999999999,10)
>> Out[242]:
>> array([        910, -2147483648,       13814,       17661,          14,
>>              3783,         335,   180167317,          38,   256949708])
>
> I'll take a look at it. This is one of those conversion to longs,
> again. I have to get on a plane now, so we'll see if I can fix it
> before I land in Austin.

Or I could just do it now. r5694.

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had an underlying truth."
 -- Umberto Eco