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authorMaxwell Aladago <maxwell.aladago@gmail.com>2019-08-25 17:11:59 -0400
committerMatti Picus <matti.picus@gmail.com>2019-08-26 00:11:59 +0300
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DOC: Clarify rules about broadcasting when empty arrays are involved. (#14313)
* DOC: clarified rules about broadcasting when empty arrays are involved.
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@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ dimensions are compatible when
If these conditions are not met, a
``ValueError: operands could not be broadcast together`` exception is
thrown, indicating that the arrays have incompatible shapes. The size of
-the resulting array is the maximum size along each dimension of the input
-arrays.
+the resulting array is the size that is not 1 along each axis of the inputs.
Arrays do not need to have the same *number* of dimensions. For example,
if you have a ``256x256x3`` array of RGB values, and you want to scale