[Numpy-discussion] round / set_printoptions discrepancy

[Philip Hodge]

On 9/13/19 8:45 AM, Irvin Probst wrote:
> On 13/09/2019 14:05, Philip Hodge wrote:
>>
>> Isn't that just for consistency with Python 3 round()?  I agree that 
>> the discrepancy with np.set_printoptions is not necessarily expected, 
>> except possibly for backwards compatibility.
>>
>>
>
> I've just checked and np.set_printoptions behaves as python's round:
>
> >>> round(16.055,2)
> 16.05
> >>> np.round(16.055,2)
> 16.06
>
> I don't know why round and np.round do not behave the same, actually I 
> would even dare to say that I don't care :-)
> However np.round and np.set_printoptions should provide the same 
> output, shouldn't they ? This discrepancy is really disturbing whereas 
> consistency with python's round looks like the icing on the cake but 
> in no way a required feature.
>

Python round() is supposed to round to the nearest even value, if the 
two closest values are equally close.  So round(16.055, 2) returning 
16.05 was a surprise to me.  I checked the documentation and found a 
note that explained that this was because "most decimal fractions can't 
be represented exactly as a float."  round(16.55) returns 16.6.

Phil