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How do you pronounce NumPy?

NUM-pie/ˈnʌmpaɪ/

Commonly said as: "NUM-pee"

Correct readingwith the dictionary applied

num pie

Raw machine readingno correction at all

NumPy

What it is

NumPy is Python's numerical computing library, underneath almost all scientific code.

Why it gets said wrong

The ending is "pie", not "pee", because Py stands for Python. The docs say so explicitly.

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Example sentence

Leave the matrix maths to NumPy.

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