[Numpy-discussion] New ufuncs

[Charles R Harris]

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>wrote:

> 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.
>

I'm inclined to go with logaddexp and add logsumexp as an alias for
logaddexp.reduce. But I'll wait until tomorrow to see if there are more
comments.

Chuck
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