Travis Oliphant: NumPy, SciPy, Anaconda, Python & Scientific Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #224
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Oliphant recalls what Numeric brought to Python: multidimensional arrays together with operations on them. A computation can be expressed and understood at the level of the whole array.
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Numeric filled the gap of having an array objectNumeric had math and a basic way to think in arrays