diff options
| author | Charles Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> | 2016-11-05 12:23:13 -0400 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2016-11-05 12:23:13 -0400 |
| commit | 62046aa1f3b4666519cbd7d5481dae836e34bbd3 (patch) | |
| tree | 0287d4705d0e61db965a2914ed566871606cc8c7 /doc | |
| parent | 9589a5afadf1adb766179d6f5d2e94ec742fe696 (diff) | |
| parent | af32cce15d670ff479c46b8580116619e29261ca (diff) | |
| download | numpy-62046aa1f3b4666519cbd7d5481dae836e34bbd3.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #8190 from charris/add-fpower-ufunc
ENH: Add a float_power function with at least float64 precision.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst b/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst index 4029abc48..473511c3d 100644 --- a/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst +++ b/doc/release/1.12.0-notes.rst @@ -261,6 +261,15 @@ values. There are two different propagation modes. The default causes masked values to contaminate the result with masks, but the other mode only outputs masks if there is no alternative. +New ``float_power`` ufunc +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The new ``float_power`` ufunc is like the ``power`` function except all +computation is done in a minimum precision of float64. There was a long +discussion on the numpy mailing list of how to treat integers to negative +integer powers and a popular proposal was that the ``__pow__`` operator should +always return results of at least float64 precision. The ``float_power`` +function implements that option. Note that it does not support object arrays. + Improvements ============ |