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From: John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: Is there any reason to introduce this intermediate variable (sz)?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 21:02:33 +0000 (UTC)
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In <bad9ac66-38aa-4445-a486-6df0e9c7752c@googlegroups.com> fl <rxjwg98@gmail.com> writes:

> correctly. Could you see something useful with variable 'sz'?

'sz' is fewer characters than '(n_iter,)', which may make your code easier
to read.

The np.zeros() function explicitly accepts an 'int or sequence of ints',
so you don't specifically need a sequence.  Is the same true for the
'size' keyword argument of np.random.normal()?

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