Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
[Irit] > Is this still needed? It's not needed for geometric_mean. It's still a reasonable feature request, but it would be non-trivial effort to put a good quality implementation together - C doesn't have this function, so we can't simply wrap it like we did for cbrt. But at least IEEE 754 does specify a "rootn" function, so we know what the behaviour should be in all the various special cases. cbrt probably covers a good proportion of use-cases for rootn (those that weren't already satisfied by sqrt). NumPy seems to have survived without needing a rootn function so far, which seems like an indication that it's not a really pressing need. Let's close, and re-open or open a new issue if someone discovers another good use-case. ---------- resolution: -> rejected stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue27353> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
