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Is the numerical_gradient function wrong? #51

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Here is the test code:

import numpy as np

def numerical_gradient(f, x):
    h = 1e-4 # 0.0001
    grad = np.zeros_like(x)
    
    it = np.nditer(x, flags=['multi_index'], op_flags=['readwrite'])
    while not it.finished:
        idx = it.multi_index
        tmp_val = x[idx]
        x[idx] = float(tmp_val) + h
        fxh1 = f(x) # f(x+h)
        
        x[idx] = tmp_val - h 
        fxh2 = f(x) # f(x-h)
        grad[idx] = (fxh1 - fxh2) / (2*h)
        
        x[idx] = tmp_val # 値を元に戻す
        it.iternext()   
        
    return grad

def func(x):
    if x.ndim == 1:
        return np.sum(x**2)
    else:
        return np.sum(x**2, axis=1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    x = np.array([1, 2])
    grad = numerical_gradient(func, x)
    print(grad)

The output is [5000 15000].

Then I added x = x.astype(float) at the beginning of numerical_gradient():

def numerical_gradient(f, x):
    x = x.astype(float)
    h = 1e-4 # 0.0001
    grad = np.zeros_like(x)
    
    it = np.nditer(x, flags=['multi_index'], op_flags=['readwrite'])
    while not it.finished:
        idx = it.multi_index
        tmp_val = x[idx]
        x[idx] = tmp_val + h
        fxh1 = f(x) # f(x+h)
        
        x[idx] = tmp_val - h 
        fxh2 = f(x) # f(x-h)
        grad[idx] = (fxh1 - fxh2) / (2*h)
        
        x[idx] = tmp_val # 値を元に戻す
        it.iternext()   
        
    return grad

The output is [2. 4.]

Why type change is unnecessary?

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