[Numpy-discussion] Re: numpy, overflow, inf, ieee, and rich , comparison

[Steven D. Majewski]

On 26 Oct 2000, Pete Forman wrote:

> Most of this thread is concerned with whether doing an operation with
> two integers should produce a result which is not an integer.
> 
> What has not been mentioned is that the "2" and "3" are integers.  If
> you want them to be floats they should be spelt "2." and "3." in the
> same way that longs would be spelt "2L" and "3L".  It may be possible
> to change the language so that unadorned numbers are floats and some
> suffix is introduced for integers.  I don't think that you'd get many
> takers for that.

I'm not particularly happy that   2000000 * 2000000  gives me an
overflow error and I have to remember to append an "L" to one or
more of those operands. Would you suggest that for consistency,
3/2 signal an error, since the answer is outside the domain ? 

That's not the solution I prefer, but at least it's consistent 
and it gives a warning rather than the wrong answer. 


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