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On 2014-05-13 00:41, Sturla Molden wrote:
> On 12/05/14 15:42, Sturla Molden wrote:
>
>> - A one-dimensional NumPy array with dtype np.float64 can keep 16 GB of
>> data before a 32 bit index is too small and Python starts to use long. A
>> two-dimensional NumPy array with dtype np.float64 can keep 256 GB of
>> data before a 32 bit index is too small.
>
>
> Oops, the latter should be 34359738336 GB (that is, 32767 pentabytes) :)
>
Double oops, Sturla, it's petabyte (well, pebibyte actually). :-)