Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: warning: Numeric and amd64

[Todd M. <jm...@st...>]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 10:43, Flávio Codeço Coelho wrote:
> On Monday 04 October 2004 09:27, Jon Peirce wrote:
> > On my AMD64 (using pre-compiled version as packaged by enthought) I get
> >
> > the expected results from RandomArray under Numeric ie:
> >  >>> from RandomArray import *
> >  >>> normal(2,2,10)
> >
> > array([-0.43560529,  2.67296922,  0.84804749,  4.26332831,  0.64425385,
> > 3.43939352,
> >              4.07021809,  3.6235764 ,  2.93580639,  1.81101392])
> >
> > Jon
> 
> Jon,
> 
> was you pre compiled Numeric compile for amd64 or for x86?
> 
> I think this is a result of the compilation .
> 
> Flavio

Pearu Peterson,  the guy who does f2py for SciPy, also commented
recently on num...@li... that he had found and fixed
this problem in Numeric for SciPy.  He posted a patch which I also
applied to Numeric on Source Forge;  that is still unreleased.  The
contents of the patch were already in numarray.random_array.

Todd


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> > >To: mat...@li...
> > >Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 17:06:10 +0000
> > >Subject: [Matplotlib-users] warning: Numeric and amd64
> > >
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >look at this:
> > >>>>>>> from RandomArray import *
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> normal(2,2,10)
> > >
> > > array([ 2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.,  2.])
> > >
> > >This is Numeric 23.1 compiled on my AMD64!!! I ran the same tests on a
> > > 32bit P4 and it ran fine.
> > >Has anyone else seen this before?
> > >
> > >For those that didn't understand, the normal function as called above,  is
> > >supposed to give me ten samples form a normal distribution with mean = 2
> > > and standard deviation = 2
> > >
> > >luckily:
> > >>>>>>> from numarray.random_array import *
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>>
> > >>>>>>> normal(2,2,10)
> > >
> > >array([-0.04525638,  4.31467819, -0.17468357,  5.29377031,  0.84202135,
> > >        5.29593539,  4.69651532,  1.61354655,  1.10839236,  1.7743317 ])
> > >
> > >If anybody still needed a reason for switching to numarray, there you go!
> > >
> > >I anybody here subscribes the numeric or numarray mailing lists (i.e. if
> > > they even exist) could you please forward this message to them?
> > >
> > >Flavio
> >
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