[Numpy-discussion] Integer cast problems

[Keith Goodman]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 9:21 AM, Ralph Kube <ralphkube at googlemail.com> wrote:
> The same happens on the ipython prompt:
>
> 0.145 * 0.005 = 28.999999999999996
> N.int32(0.145 * 0.005) = 28
>
> Any ideas how to deal with this?

Do you want the answer to be 29? N.int32 truncates. If you want to
round instead, you could use that standard trick of adding 0.5:

>> np.int32(0.5 + 0.145 / 0.005)
   29

or

>> np.round(0.145 / 0.005)
   29.0