[Numpy-discussion] Question about numpy.max(<complex matrix>)
Fri Sep 21 21:33:14 CDT 2007
On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, David Goldsmith wrote:
> Not to be snide, but I found this thread very "entertaining," as,
> precisely because there is no single, well-defined (partial) ordering of
> C, I regard it as poor coding practice to rely on whatever partial
> ordering the language you're using may (IMO unwisely) provide: if you
> want max(abs(complex_array)), then you should write that so that future
> people reading your code have no doubt that that's what you intended;
> likewise, even if numpy provides it as a default, IMO, if you want
> max(real(complex_array)), then you should write that,
Yea, I kind of thought that too. However, the problem with that is:
max(real(complex_array)) returns only the *real* part of the max value found.
Numpy returns the *complex* value with the largest *real* part. So the
return is conceptually muddled.
More specifically, Numpy doesn't return max(real(complex_array)).
Rather, it does something like (in pseudocode)
idx1 = index( max_all(real(complex_array)) )
idx2 = index( max(imag(complex_array[idx1])) )
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