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authorJulian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>2014-09-05 20:03:39 +0200
committerJulian Taylor <jtaylor.debian@googlemail.com>2014-09-07 14:14:22 +0200
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downloadnumpy-e7a837086e2cf304deff43c5eaf06132de2608a5.tar.gz
ENH: add cube root function np.cbrt for real floats
wraps the C99 cube root function cbrt.
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@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ NPY_RELAXED_STRIDE_CHECKING is now true by default.
New Features
============
+`np.cbrt` to compute cube root for real floats
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+`np.cbrt` wraps the C99 cube root function `cbrt`.
+Compared to `np.power(x, 1./3.)` it is well defined for negative real floats
+and a bit faster.
+
Improvements
============