[Numpy-discussion] New ufuncs

Stéfan van der Walt stefan at sun.ac.za
Wed Nov 5 16:41:37 EST 2008


2008/11/5 T J <tjhnson at gmail.com>:
> numpy, it seems that logadd or logaddexp is probably a more fitting
> name.  So long as it is documented, I doubt it matters much though...

Please don't call it logadd.  `logaddexp` or `logsumexp` are both
fine, but the `exp` part is essential in emphasising that you are not
calculating a+b using logs.

Cheers
Stéfan



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